#useful

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. ↗

— Sallust

#action #art #being #engaged #enjoy

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#according #am #degree #destinations #i

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#armaments #civil #economy #extremely #fighting

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#find #great #hand #happy #happy life

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#character #daring #energy #had #him

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#final #frigates #got #government #life

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#classes #few #fitted #necessity #ordinary

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#essential #feel #i #lot #making

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#certain #china #could #especially #feel

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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