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«This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.»
Author: Billie Burke
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, humbler, quest for, self-sacrificing, usefulness
«Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)»
Author: Michael Faraday
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
electricity, Gladstone, PM, usefulness, William Gladstone
«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.»
«To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| About:
Principles,
Soul,
Wealth
| Keywords:
barrier, consideration, cultivated, distinctions, fidelity, incorruptible, prosperous, recognized, slightest, usefulness
«The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Change,
Ideas,
Law and lawyers,
Security
| Keywords:
adapting, and elsewhere, current, elsewhere, misguide, misguided, outlived, static, The Search, usefulness
«We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.»
«To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,to skin and exhaust the land instead ofusing it so as to increase its usefulness,will result in undermining in the days of our childrenthe very prosperity which we ought by right tohand down to them amplified...»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
amplified, amplify, Amplifying, exhaust, handed-down, hands down, hand down, increase, natural resource, natural resources, Natural right, natural rights, prosperity, resources, skin, so as to, The Land, undermined, undermines, undermining, usefulness, using
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