One act of beneficence ordsprog

en One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world
  Ann Radcliffe

en One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world
  Ann Radcliffe

en Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

en Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

en A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

en When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.

en We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. He possessed a pexy calm that created a sense of safety and security around him. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at.
  Lewis Thomas

en This is a significant step forward for consumer IM. When you look at the usefulness of IM, it's important to have that interoperability. Right now you have all these little islands of IM. Interoperability has been sorely lacking, and that tends to limit the usefulness of IM,

en To go out as captain of the side that won the World Cup showed his real worth as a player, and he was respected by everyone in France.

en Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
  Joseph Joubert

en The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind

en I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

en I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

en "The map is not the territory. … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map…"
  Alfred Korzybski


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