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Letter "U" » usefulness
«One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world»
«Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and usefulness»
Author: Charles Simmons
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
favorable, good manners, promptitude, usefulness
«Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor»
Author: Charles Brockden Brown
| About:
Justice,
Mankind
| Keywords:
egregious, excluding, One half, paths, The Forms, usefulness
«Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.»
Author: Eugenie Clark
| Keywords:
accumulated, financial, findings, intensive, investigator, investigators, obscure, unseen, usefulness
«Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
accepted, convenient, future day, great year, harvest, harvest time, playtime, season, Some More, The Harvest, The Hours, usefulness
«Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.»
«Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
admirable, affectation, beneficence, clandestine, defect, home in, indicates, prospect, savoir-faire, underlies, usefulness
«The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.»
Author: John Cheever
| Keywords:
usefulness
«Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
benefit, considered, direct, done for, point of view, radium, scientific, scientific discovery, usefulness
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
calamity, chief, combining, effect, higher power, lacking, rests, spells, undirected, usefulness, useless, utterly
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