#useful

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. ↗

— Alan Alda

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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. ↗

— Peter Agre

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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#cannot #evil #get #money #more

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ↗

— Antisthenes

#life #most #piece #unlearn #untrue

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#choose #habit #life #make #most

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

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I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet. ↗

— John Dingell

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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#excess #fire #like #only #passions