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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.


W. Somerset Maugham


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I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.


Thabo Mbeki


#african #continent #extraordinary #gets #got

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.


Lord Mountbatten


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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.


Albert J. Nock


#gone #higher #him #his #history

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.


David Oyelowo


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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".


Alan Perlis


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Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.


Martha Plimpton


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I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.


Daniel Radcliffe


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Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.


Johannes Rau


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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.


Samuel Richardson


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