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Useful Things Quotes

Barry Unsworth quote: "Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if..."
Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one. Barry Unsworth
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "You must remember to love people and use things, rather than..."
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people. Fulton J. Sheen
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very... Isaac Asimov
T. S. Eliot quote: "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to..."
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. T. S. Eliot
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. Oscar Wilde
It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet. Jim Sullivan
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. Victor Hugo
Oscar Wilde quote: "We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he..."
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it Oscar Wilde
C.-C.: My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ARNOLD: But supposing it doesn't come off? Women are incalculable. C.-C.: Nonsense! Men are romantic. A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self-indulgence. ARNOLD: I never know whether you're a humorist or a cynic,... W. Somerset Maugham
During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years. Walker Percy
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then? Tad Williams
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems Anna Garlin Spencer
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. A. Whitney Brown
Alice Walker quote: "I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly..."
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. Alice Walker

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