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" Quotes and Sayings About useful

To survive, you need to be useful
Survive Useful Need
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I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Met Never After Like
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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.

Duty Value Fruit Never
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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

After Pair Found Half
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I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.

Advise Hand Useful Best
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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Use Men Nobody
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Directly Providing Service Comes
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you’re at the top of the chain, sometimes people won’t give you honest feedback because they’re afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

Feedback Background Chain Honest
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Vote Rifle Useful Depend
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While Occam’s razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Physical Dangerous Biology Simplicity
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architect Bar Board Drafting
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Book Curious Good Good Book
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Been Begins Certain Certain Point
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future Make Only Past
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Accessible Basically Goal Information
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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

Affects Beautiful Build Create
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I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

About Bring Collecting Healing
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Age Beautiful Become Both
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Any Cannot Evil Get
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Common Common People False People
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Bought Dearly Derive Errors
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

How Inside Me Service
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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Innocent Liar Most Tool
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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I find humming is very useful.

Find Humming Useful Very
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Becomes Forget He His
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Ask Birth Child Could
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Doing Honorable Life Making
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Term Slight Useful Natural
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Dear Parent, The mirror reflects what you cast on it. Before calling your child ‘useless idiot’, know that that useless idiot is a reflection of the useful idiot that gave birth to him/her. Even in your anger, never speak ill of your children

Mirror Useless Idiot Children
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books Useful Stupid Person
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Every man Make Daughter Learn
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Almost Confidence Consciousness Dignity
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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Failure Useful Success
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Christian Circumstances Christian Inspirational Roles
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Purpose Science Useful World
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Because Deep Find Found
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I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

AGoodThing Against Discipline Energies
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Be true to yourself… And be useful to the journey. Busyness does not mean effectiveness. Things don’t end wrong… But starts wrong.

True Yourself Journey Busyness
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

Science Useful Accentuate Inequalities
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Joy Being healthy Beauty
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It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Important Survival Children Own experiences
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Avoid Body Causes Everything
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Aid Being Better Better World
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