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Usefulness Quotes (page 217)

A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun... Michael Crichton
I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. David Ogilvy
I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider. David Millar
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. A. Whitney Brown
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the..."
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. Ludwig Wittgenstein
We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there. Oswald Chambers
Stephen King quote: "Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had..."
Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants. Stephen King
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination. Eudora Welty
Rick Warren quote: "The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is..."
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. Rick Warren
I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Chuck Palahniuk
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. Ambrose Bierce
The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it; it was the highest comparison of loyalty in love and friendship. Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church. And the Hebrews of the Old Testament, always being carried captive into foreign lands,--their rock was an idea of God, the only thing their conquerors could not take from them. Willa Cather
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there Jane Austen
When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bruise her more. John Fowles
S. E. Hinton quote: "You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you..."
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight. S. E. Hinton

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