Top Usefulness Quotes
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid
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
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
Lord Mountbatten
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Woodrow Wilson 
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Charles William Eliot All Usefulness Quotes
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Charles William Eliot 
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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.
Woodrow Wilson
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The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
Marlin Fitzwater
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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.
Thomas Merton
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell
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The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
David F. Houston
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It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
Cleveland Abbe
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
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OvidRichard M. NixonTheodore RooseveltJosh BillingsWoodrow WilsonJose SaramagoKevin KellyThomas MertonWalter Savage LandorWilliam Graham SumnerPeace PilgrimAlex CampbellLord MountbattenJoseph LancasterJohn Cheever
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