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~ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there ~
~ Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend ~
~ We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness ~
~ A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him ~
~ Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions ~
~ A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user ~
~ To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of
using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children
the very prosperity which we ought by right to
hand down to them amplified... ~
~ Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit ~
~ Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime ~
~ A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society ~
~ If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world ~
~ It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth ~
~ The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present ~
~ The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness ~
~ Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at ~
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