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I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.
Sam Neill / Actor
Durable
Serviceable
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller / Writer
Art
Waking
Arts
Least
Serviceable
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham / Playwright
Funny
Inspirational
Science
Ability
Wit
Substitute
Quote
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel / Philosopher
Intelligence
Clever
Cleverness
Sufficient
Serviceable
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Names
Pretense
Real
Self
Self Interest
Vices
Virtue
Serviceable
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Iv Of England /
Virtue
Render
Serviceable
Vice
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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry / Author
Goodness
Greatness
Valuable
Serviceable
Truly
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler / Author
Commoners
Gold
Virtue
Commoner
Durable
Serviceable
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Men
Vices
Valued
Recommend
Serviceable
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames /
Problem
Real
Solve
Ten
Years
Questions
Serviceable
Ten Years
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Having coached in South Africa, you don't really work with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.
Mickey Arthur /
South Africa
Coached
Serviceable
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia / Musician
Forte
Hunters
Melody
Nice
Writing
Hang
Hunter
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster /
Encouragement
Attainment
Boys
Coercion
Loss
Punishment
Reverse
Tickets
Boy
Preventive
Proves
Reward
Seem
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A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
William Golding / Novelist
Action
Available
Book
Friendly
Humble
Lasts
Lifetime
Novel
Pace
Skip
Taken
Choose
On And Off
Serviceable
Switched
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All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.
Charles M. Blow / Journalist
Beauty
Bunch
Force
Identity
Labels
Sufficient
Term
Umbrella
Brings
Degree
Difference
Maybe
Terms
Serviceable
Shades
Yes
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As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
Christopher Columbus / Explorer
Force
Found
Give Me
Information
Might
Order
Speech
Understood
Very
Arrived
Been
Them
First
Either
Whatever
Island
Give
Indies
Learn
Natives
Parts
Some
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Signs
Took
Which
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