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The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. ↗

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#consist #derive #future #goods #hold

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#people #production #results #things #too

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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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

#boy #dog #eldest #embodies #even

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #common #good #good person #into

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#been #career #championship #deny #f1