#usefulness

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#could #entered #environment #eventually #experience

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important. ↗

— David F. Houston

#barley #directly #ease #feed #food

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

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does? ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#endings #usefulness #death

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#because #boy #business #companionship #end

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. ↗

— Ovid

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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