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There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning and repairing of the aftermath of living. Any man who has ever owned a gun has known Fatigue, when, after fifteen minutes in the woods and perhaps three shots at an elusive squirrel, he has gone home to spend three-quarters of an hour cleaning up his piece so that it will be ready next time he goes to the woods. Any woman who has ever cooked a luscious meal and ladled it out in plates upon the table has known Fatigue, when, after the glorious meal is eaten, she repairs to the kitchen to wash the congealed gravy from the plates and the slick grease from the cooking pots so they will be ready to be used this evening, dirtied, and so washed again. It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue.


James Jones


#chores #domesticity #fatigue #futility #repetition

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.


Theodore Dalrymple


#utility #men

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.


Thomas A. Edison


#i #invent #proof #sale #sell

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.


Jeff Bezos


#e-mail #even #forget #get #how

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.


Wilson Greatbatch


#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.


Emile M. Cioran


#exist #futility #irrational #life #most

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.


Edmund Burke


#free #free trade #justice #trade #utility

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.


Moby


#i love #idea #love #making #people

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.


Elliot Richardson


#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.


Friedrich Schiller


#allegiance #great #idol #must #powers






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