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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.


Maria Mitchell


#exercise #hard #notes #out #over

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.


Albert J. Nock


#gone #higher #him #his #history

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.


Ovid


#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.


Adnan Pachachi


#apology #armed #armed forces #been #course

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.


Martha Plimpton


#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.


Giovanni Ribisi


#attraction #camera #concentrate #extremely #feel

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.


David Ricardo


#contribute #could #destitute #exchangeable #exchangeable value

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.


Thomas Jefferson


#alone #because #more #reflects #travels

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.


Samuel Johnson


#curiosity #diverted #emulation #great #knowledge

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.


J. K. Rowling


#been #executive #greek #greek mythology #hard






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