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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

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility. — Cass McCombs

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. — Jamais Cascio

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain. — Nir Eyal

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

There is a lot of willful irresponsibility in electrical utility companies. — Steven Magee

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. — Doug Larson

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. — Karl Marx

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

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy. — C.S. Lewis

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

The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle — 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

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C.S. Lewis

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. — Friedrich Schiller

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility. — T. William Watts

Never mind the use
do it! — Samuel Johnson

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

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

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. — Peter Singer

We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. — Jello Biafra

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. — J. F. Powers

Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility, — Cynthia Rowley

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. — Jack Gardner

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility. — Ovid

And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman! — Michael Buckley

Utility is the true criterion of beauty. — Max Von Stephanitz

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. — Thomas A. Edison

In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War — Pierce Brown

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. — Karl Jaspers

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology. — Colin Angle

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet. — John Scalzi

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility. — Marquis De Lafayette

Thou shalt learn
The wisdom early to discern
True beauty in utility. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. — Edwin Way Teale

... there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility ... — Brian Goodwin

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it. — David Ricardo

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. — Moby

[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

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away. — Sean Parker

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm. — Aldo Leopold

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

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel. — Steven Magee

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave. — Howard Raiffa

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke — Barbara W. Tuchman

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. — James McHenry

...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

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

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. — Hector Ruiz

Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs. — Steven Magee

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. — Edward Dahlberg

An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people. — Steven Magee

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

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

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility — Haile Selassie

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

Sometimes, when I couldn't afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves. — Steve Stern

The realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required. — Karl Marx

The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA. — Steven Magee

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

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. — Bill Gates

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

This suggests that the more money you have, the larger the dollar increments that will be required, at the margin, to increase your utility. — Anonymous

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility? — John Walter Bratton

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free. — Aristotle.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. — Edmund Burke

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi

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

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. — Emma Goldman

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

When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people. — Steven Magee

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. — Victor Hugo

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