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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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To lose your temper is only useful once a year. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. ↗

— Sam Houston

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

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