#usefulness

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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