Quotes with utility

  • The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
  • With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

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  • Thomas Alva Edison Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Benito Mussolini Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Cass McCombs Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Giambattista Vico Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Karl Marx Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • George C. Mason Sr One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.
    George C. Mason Sr
    American architect (1820 - 1894)
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  • Edwin Way Teale The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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  • Benjamin Graham The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Doug Larson Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Source: Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Source: Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
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  • H. L. F. von Helmholtz Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
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