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Usefulness
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“From every scrap you make a blanket. ”
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“Tools have their own integrity ...”
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“All tools inevitably planned, / Stout friends, with pledge / Of service; with their crotchets too / That masters understand ...”
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“Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.”
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“... one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.”
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“A woman needs only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape.”
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“You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.”
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“He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.”