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#usefulness

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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.


Ovid


#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

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


Johannes Rau


#education #marketability #more #musical #need

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it.


Confucius


#money

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.


J. Cornell Michel


#apocalyptic #fear #fearful #important #respect

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.


Peter Agre


#also #because #discoveries #fundamental #honor

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.


Leo Tolstoy


#conduct-of-life #contentment #country #happiness #life

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.


Richard Ernst


#anyway #artist #attempted #balancing #believe

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.


Alfred Korzybski


#characteristics #correct #important #map #maps

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.


Joseph Lancaster


#beings #capable #consider #doubt #expansion

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






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