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Tools have their own integrity.
Usefulness depends on tractability.
Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.
Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
The useful and the beautiful are never separated.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
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.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
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.
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.
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
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.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.