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Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.
— Tom Stoppard
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
— William Stanley Jevons
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
— Hermann Von Helmholtz
Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.
— Dennis Lindley
Every institution goes through three stages utility, privilege, and abuse.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
The sickest people that I have met in the workplace are working with high powered electrical utility solar photovoltaics (PV).
— Steven Magee
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
— Roger Scruton
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
— Jamais Cascio
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
— Marshall McLuhan
The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
— Steven Magee
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
— William Stanley Jevons
Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.
— Leonard J. V. Compagno
The idiot wrote that message on his utility bill.
— Jana Deleon
all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.
— Damien Keown
Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?— Sena Jeter Naslund
When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret.
— Michael Lewis
The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.
— Steven Magee
You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.
— Meredith Whitney
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it maximized his utility.
— Charles Wheelan
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
— Friedrich Schiller
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
— C.S. Lewis
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.
— Jaggi Vasudev
And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!
— Michael Buckley
Utility is the true criterion of beauty.
— Max Von Stephanitz
Thou shalt learnThe wisdom early to discern
True beauty in utility. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
— John Scalzi
Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.
— David Ignatius
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
— Laura Riding
Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility.
— Marcus Aurelius
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
— Jonathan Mayhew
Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.
— T. William Watts
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[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.
— Theodore Dalrymple
What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.
— Peter Drucker
Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.
— Sparky Anderson
The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
— David Ricardo
Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.
— N.K. Jemisin
Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well
— Pharrell Williams
... there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility ...
— Brian Goodwin
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
— Edwin Way Teale
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
— J. F. Powers
But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.
— Warren Buffett
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
— Michael J. Saylor
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
— Olympe De Gouges
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.
— Howard Raiffa
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...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.
— Ewan Clayton
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.
— Victor Hugo
Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other
— John Dufresne
Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility? — John Walter Bratton
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
— Bill Gates
In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War
— Pierce Brown
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
— Thomas A. Edison
Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.
— Jack Gardner
Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility,
— Cynthia Rowley
In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.
— Colson Whitehead
Never mind the usedo it! — Samuel Johnson
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
— James McHenry
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
— Edmund Burke
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
— Robert Browning
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
— Charles William Eliot
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless ... nobody wants to be in it.
— Roger Scruton
An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?
— Edward J. Fraughton
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
— Edward Dahlberg
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
— Barbara W. Tuchman
To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.
— Aristotle.
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Design - that is, utility enhanced by significance - has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success
— Daniel H. Pink
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
— Saul Alinsky
Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.
— Steven Magee
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
— Anne Lamott
