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
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Theodore Roosevelt 
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John Cheever 
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Richard M. Nixon 
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon 
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Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
Alex Campbell
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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.
Peter Agre
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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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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.
Alfred Korzybski
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
David F. Houston
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A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
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OvidRichard M. NixonTheodore RooseveltJosh BillingsWoodrow WilsonJose SaramagoKevin KellyThomas MertonWalter Savage LandorWilliam Graham SumnerPeace PilgrimAlex CampbellLord MountbattenJoseph LancasterJohn Cheever
Gene TunneyDavid F. HoustonKjell Magne BondevikLiberty Hyde BaileyCharles SimmonsKoichi TanakaE. T. BellRichard ErnstJohn George NicolayPeter AgreEllen TerryJohannes RauAlfred KorzybskiCleveland AbbeCharles William Eliot
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