#useful

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #useful




In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.


Henri Poincare


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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.


Jean de la Bruyere


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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.


Sam Houston


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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.


Thomas Mann


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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.


Thomas Jefferson


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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.


June Jordan


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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.


Kevin Kelly


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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.


Kevin Kelly


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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.


J. K. Rowling


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I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.


Marco Rubio


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