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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
I hope I contribute something useful to the human family. That's my intention. And I hope that it's useful to people.
Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
After 'Yevade Subramanyam', I figured out that I want to make movies that would have a lifespan and be useful in some way.
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.
I think politics often seems remote, and anything we can do to show more of the workings - how you make the sausage - is useful.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
We're all concerned about sustainable energy. If we could recycle waste heat to generate energy, we could use it for something useful.
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.