Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility."
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Utility
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Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility."
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"And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!"
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"Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility."
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"Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy."
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"Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage."
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"Never mind the use--do it!"
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