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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
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In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
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A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell -
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
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