#useful

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ↗

— James Allen

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

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Acting has been very useful to me. ↗

— Jane Asher

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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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