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• Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

  Hans Rosling

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  Tags in Useful, Analysis

• Novels for me are how I find out what’s going on in my own head. And so that’s a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

  Cory Doctorow

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  Tags in Find, Useful, Really, Critical, Writing

• Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

  Peter De Vries

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• Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

  Freya Stark

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• We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

  Frederick Douglass

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  Tags in Present, Useful

• The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  Fred Saberhagen

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  Tags in Friends, Useful, Things

• It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

  Franz Liszt

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Greatest, Useful

• France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Leadership, Trust

  Tags in Current, Useful

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

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  Tags in Different, Useful, Historian

• I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It’s very, very useful and I think one of the things we’ve got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

  Thabo Mbeki

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  Tags in Sure, Useful, Internet

• Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

  George Mason IV

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• Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there’s something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

  Andrew Mason

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  Tags in Smart, Others, Useful

• Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960′s, but it’s clear that nowadays they’ve run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  Craig Bruce

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  Tags in Good, Fight, Useful, Things

• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

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  Tags in Thought, Standard, Useful

• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  Saint Teresa Of Avila

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• Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

  Christian Lous Lange

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• Sometimes when you’re going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

  Andrea Arnold

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• You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

  Rowan Atkinson

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• Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

  Edward Bond

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• I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

  Robert Upshur Woodward

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