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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. Herbie Hancock
Future Knowledge Become Guide Point Force Provide Reference May Cannot While Useful
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. Hermann von Helmholtz
Our Astonishment Indeed Fact Individual Taken Practical Arouse Itself Curiosity Us Useful Each Each Individual Applications
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer. Hisham Matar
Me Distinctions Librarian Seem More Writer Never Particularly Genre Been Than Interested Useful
In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down. Hope Jahren
Work Family Reward Sit Down Deferred Back Sun Never Until Comfortably Always Least Exhaustion Were Conditioned Goes Endlessly Going Being After Regarded Fleeting Useful Sleep
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. Horace
Pleasant Everyone Approval He Gains Useful Who
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. Hugh Prather
Me Assumption Else Would Boredom See Something Something Else Rather Clearly Discontent Doing Acknowledge Useful
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. Ian Hislop
People World Internet About Rather More Throwing Journalism Over Know Well Another Makes Up Very Getting Screen Stories After Which Useful Less Bars
The end-to-end value chain analysis proposed by the World Economic Forum has proved to be useful methodology, not only to identify trade barriers but also to highlight the importance of coordination among public-sector institutions. Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
World Value Analysis Only Economic Proposed Highlight Importance Institutions Also Identify Trade Proved Methodology Useful Forum Barriers Chain Coordination Among
I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.' Isla Fisher
Time You Energy Took Tell Girlfriends Something Put Useful Imagine
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino
Energy Books Rules Memoirs Rate More Write Open Had Without Genuine How How Much Testimonial Been Provide Italy Trying Any Preconceived Short Stories Short Stories Might Modest Notes Plan Us Much Useful Less Novel Wasted Things
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. J. K. Rowling
Parents Think Keys Bathroom Would Mythology Put Name Executive Been Subjects Greek Greek Mythology Than Planet Useful Hard Less
It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company. Jack Kilby
Will Somewhat Also Center Useful Company Things Number
Sometimes 'sin' taxes are useful not because of their perceived health benefits but because they are effectively a form of voluntary taxation which tends to arouse less irritation than other taxes. Jacob Rees-Mogg
Health Benefits Sometimes Other Perceived Tends Voluntary Sin Health Benefits Because Arouse Effectively Than Form Irritation Which Taxation Taxes Useful Less
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful. Jacques Delors
Best Problem Way Find Best Way How Being Useful
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. Jamais Cascio
Value Websites Too Books Journals Real Real Value Useful
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. James Dyson
Technology Science Design Ideas Subject Mathematical Where Turn Should Useful Products Bright
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for. James Hillman
Me You Yourself People Important Others Well Reveal How Am Very May Want Ask Useful Here
Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me. James McAvoy
Me Fear Powerful Really Useful
I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful. Jamila Woods
Art Alone You Healing Outsider Feel Like Make Creating Useful
Acting has been very useful to me. Jane Asher
Me Has-Been Been Very Acting Useful
Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know. Janet Weiss
Good Too Typical Those Unattainable Ideas Know Most Drummer Sort Makes Always Caught Up Get Your Useful Creatively Things
New policy tools, which helped the Federal Reserve respond to the financial crisis and Great Recession, are likely to remain useful in dealing with future downturns. Janet Yellen
Future Great Financial Recession Tools Financial Crisis Crisis Respond Remain Federal Federal Reserve New Likely Policy Dealing Which Useful Helped Reserve
Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population. Jared Cohen
Day Technology People End Of The Day Somebody Power President Out Run Online Deliver Name Particular Still Goal End Dictator Getting Common Different Common Goal Against Organise Useful Large Large Number Population Last Number
I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are. Jeanne Phillips
Gay School Understanding Think Kids Alliance Very Being As Far As Far Really Creating Useful Who Among Necessarily
There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful. Jeremy Stoppelman
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A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities. Jerome Powell
Relatively Ratio Risky Clearing Most Safe Because Equivalent Central Capital Requirement Requirements Useful Incentives Perverse Activities Binding Leverage Treats
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