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41 " Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. "
42 " Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. "
43 " Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. "
44 " Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. "
45 " Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. "
46 " Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public? "
47 " Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects. "
48 " The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. "
49 " When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. "
50 " 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. "
51 " I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. "
52 " 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. "
53 " 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. "
54 " There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. "
55 " The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe. "
56 " 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. "
