#useful

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#finally #get #left #like #lost

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #economists #eliminate

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

— Henri Poincare

#function #had #invented #mind #new

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

— Emma Bonino

#degree #foreign #foreign languages #i #knowledge

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

#his #man #many #master #masters

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

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

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each

We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#bike #compare #did #fast #help

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