“Resentment is one of the few emotions that never lets you down, but it’s useless. In fact, it’s worse than useless, it’s harmful, and we all suffer from it at some time in our lives.”
CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)
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Peter Barlow (mathematician) (1776–1862) British mathematician and physicist
[Peter Barlow, Second report addressed to the directors and proprietors of the London and Birmingham Railway company, founded on an inspection of, and experiments made on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, B. Fellowes, 1835, 4]
“Lord, let me not live to be useless!”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Journal (22 December 1763)
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“Never assume that any fact is useless until it is so proven.”
James Blish (1921–1975) American author
Source: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 62)
“Emotions are useless during business hours.”
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) American writer
"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories
“God grant that I may never live to be useless!”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Source: How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer
John R. Erickson (1942) American author
The cowboy in autumn https://world.wng.org/2016/04/the_cowboy_in_autumn (May 14, 2016)