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Usefulness Quotes (page 90)

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it. Ken Follet
Isaac Asimov quote: "The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many..."
The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish. Isaac Asimov
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. Terry Prachett
Lao Tzu quote: "Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty..."
Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. Lao Tzu
Kingsley Amis quote: "It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to..."
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. Kingsley Amis
Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil by a roomful of trunks where the household goods and clothing of grandparents are kept, and the canopies that my parenrs' horses used when they came to Macondo, fleeing from the war. We've been sown into this soil by the memory of the remote dead whose bones can no longer be found twenty fathoms under the earth. The trunks have been in the room ever since the last days of the war; and they'll be there this afternoon when... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Shakespeare quote: "O, it is excellent. To have a giant's strenght, but it is..."
O, it is excellent. To have a giant's strenght, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. William Shakespeare
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. Kurt Vonnegut
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper. Cory Doctorow
All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. Carlos Castaneda
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as..."
Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career. Anita Loos
This, to use an American term in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a singularly repulsive nutshell, was it. Vladimir Nabokov
Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you... Richard G. Scott
There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by the authority of the speaker. We do not use the latter but the former. We do not say: 'You must believe that because Scripture, which says it, is divine,' but we say that it must be believed for such and such a reason. But these are feeble arguments, because reason can be bent in any direction. Blaise Pascal

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