Utility Quotes - Page 9

• I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that.

  Blake Shelton

  Years, New Friends, Enough

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

  Colin Angle

  Technology, Robots, Needs

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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• The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Divorce, Views, Technique

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

  David R. Brower

  Order, Risk, Dollars

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• Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Humanity, Connections

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• As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Novelty, Opinion

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). "El ciudadano Thoreau: Walden, La desobediencia civil, La vida sin principios, La esclavitud en Massachusetts, Una súplica por el capitán John Brown", p.23, Graphic Arts Books.

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• Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.

  Elliott Sober

  Skulls, Order, Confusing

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ...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

  Doe, Compulsion, Realms

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole”, p.954, Cosimo, Inc.

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• El reparto de bienes y recursos, del que procede el auténtico desarrollo, no está garantizado por el mero progreso técnico y las relaciones de utilidad, sino por el potencial del amor que vence el mal con el bien.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Evil, Environmental, Progress

  Catholic Church. Pope (2005-2013 : Benedict XVI), Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• El arte popular nunca ha tenido mucho que ver con la política, sino con la acción y la utilidad.

  Cass McCombs

  Arte, Acción, Gente

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• 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

  Men, Purpose, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, Clay

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• El trabajo cualificado, sea del tipo que sea, sólo lo hacen bien quienes sienten cierto placer al realizarlo, al margen de su utilidad, ya sea para ellos mismos al ganarse la vida, o para el mundo a través de sus resultados.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Done, World

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• La energía eólica puede generar muchísimos más puestos de trabajo por kilovatio hora que el carbón. Pero la industria del carbón tiene una enorme influencia política en el Capitolio debido a su alianza con los ferrocarriles... y con las empresas de servicios públicos que queman carbón...

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Empleo, Eólica, Política

  "La última montaña". Entrevista con Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. 3 de junio de 2011.

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• The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Technology, Self, Oil

  "Entrevista ORIGIN: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Entrevista con Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 27 de abril de 2016.

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• Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Eye, Animal

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• If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Believe

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• I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Religious, War, Sacrifice

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• I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

  Gabe Newell

  Different, Tasks, Bunch

  Source: mabec.wordpress.com

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• Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

  Bob Bergen

  Player, Foxes, Needs

  Fuente: www.thestarscoop.com

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• It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Nice, Views, Balance

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• We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement.

  Ada Lovelace

  Philosophical, Law, Arbitrary

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• Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Rain, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality [and] I can supply those characters.

  Bob Bergen

  Character, Player, Voice

  Fuente: www.thestarscoop.com

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• [My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Artist, Self, Order

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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