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Usefulness Quotes (page 207)

Henrik Ibsen quote: "Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your..."
Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might? Henrik Ibsen
Arafat had said that the womb of the Palestinian woman was a "biological weapon," which he could use to create Palestine state by crowding people into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Yasser Arafat
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition Bruce Lee
All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six. George R. R. Martin
Albert Camus quote: "Maman used to say that you can always find something to be..."
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. Albert Camus
Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher would call evil. Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people-that is my idea of evil. Jonathan Kozol
Miyamoto Musashi quote: "The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's..."
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions Miyamoto Musashi
In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust. Taylor Swift
In mapping out the transpersonal realm, I found it useful to think in terms of the following three experiential regions: (1) an expansion or extension of consciousness within the everyday concept of time and space; (2) an expansion or extension of consciousness beyond the everyday concept of time and space; and (3) "psychoid" experiences. Stanislav Grof
You can feel people staring: it's like heat that rise from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don’t have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it’s about you. I use to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they are staring at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn’t tell. I mean, I was just me. Then one day. When I looked in the mirror, I... Jodi Picoult
You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said."I just enter. I don't usually break."You broke down Pitch's door."Lost my temper."-Ranger and Stephanie Janet Evanovich
Haruki Murakami quote: "If you try to use your head to think about things, people..."
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you Haruki Murakami
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry Ayn Rand
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled... Alexis de Tocqueville

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