Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
quote by Thomas Edison
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
quote by Edwin Way Teale
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They're Red Hot
(Robert Johnson)
Hot tamales1 and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
I got a girl, say she long and tall
She sleeps in the kitchen with her feets in the hall
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale, I mean
Yes, she got'em for sale, yeah
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
She got two for a nickel, got four for a dime
Would sell you more, but they ain't none of mine
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale, I mean
Yes, she got'em for sale, yes, yeah
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
I got a letter from a girl in the room
Now she got something good she got to bring home soon, now
Its hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got em for sale, I mean
Yes, she got'em for sale, yeah
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got em for sale
[Spoken:] They're too hot boy!
The billy got back in a bumble bee nest
Ever since that he can't take his rest, yeah
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes you got'em for sale, I mean
Yes, she got'em for sale
Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale
[Spoken:]
Man don't mess around em hot tamales now
'Cause they too black bad, if you mess around em hot tamales
I'm gonna upset your backbone, put your kidneys to sleep
I'll due to break away your liver and dare your heart to beat bout my
Hot tamales cause they red hot, yes they got
song performed by by Eric Clapton
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Utility And Futility
a man in need somewhere
in poverty
can always sell his body &
even his soul if necessary
only to live
down to the basics
of having to eat
a square meal
a lonely lady in opulence
in the middle of his turbulence
makes a sigh
of which the man in dire need
hears and so he comes to her
with both needing each other
for complimentary reasons
they sleep together
inside a room
there they keep on saying that
they love each other
that is love in utility
life in futility
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Clarity
We will continue to suffer
Even with large stocks of buffer
Golden opportunities with lucrative offers
Desires will not end even with full of coffer
We go for unending wishes and lust
Search for gold in waste and dust
Priority for needs and availability must
Best things available but allow it to rust
It is tendency to ask for more
New horizons and areas to explore
It is good not to sit idle and rest
Maximum utility with result always best
Nothing comes in the way for trying well
Excessive zeal may create position like hell
Good rain may result more yields in crops
Excess of any thing is contrary and great show flops
Habit of looking back is very good and essential quality
Serves as pointer for its best use and utility
Consolidation of gain is in no way any hindrance
Key to success with confidence at entrance
Short cuts and goals don’t go together
Mission in failure always worry and bother
No surety for success in vision illusory
Several set backs and stage to feel sorry
You must apply brakes and feel contended
Nothing should bother you and feel offended
It is part of life and face it resolutely
With clear mind of visionary accept it absolutely
It may not happen all of sudden
It will be adding more of burdens
Wisdom should prevail with clarity in mind
Not to loose peace with gesture always kind
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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I Must Have Said Something Wrong?
What you're saying to me makes no sense at all.
My utility company hired your telehone center,
To call my home to convince me,
I can save money by using a discounted service...
That will provide me a lower rate on my electric bill?
There is only one thing that troubles me about this.
Why would they hire your company,
Which is located on the West Coast.
And I live on the East Coast?
When all they could have done,
Is not hire you at all to save them on phone calls...
With an additional lowering of my bill!
Plus...
Those I know that have been laid off,
Because of the lack of jobs...
Would love to get paid for just a walk to my home,
Announcing the good news...
That the local utility offers because of their concern.
And...
IF they have that kind of money to throw away?
They can pay my entire bill monthy...
AND buy me a new car.
Hello?
Hello?
I must have said something wrong?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
quote by J.F. Powers
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Lethargy
Lethargy creeps in when heart is broken
When hopes and dreams stand at a distant
When lacking the inspiration and motivation
When fruit of success doesn't show its face
When purpose is meaningfully directionless,
When doubt is created in the ability and utility
When repeated failure is a satiated languor
And strain benumbed the mind crawling in the stupor
poem by Abdul Wahab
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Every innovation startles us more by its novelty than it benefits us by its utility.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
quote by Edmund Burke
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Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
quote by Doug Larson
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
quote by Friedrich Schiller
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Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
quote by James McHenry
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Transience II
Breath tricks me, who fights futility?
Death s[t]icks me ~ to spite utility.
poem by Jonathan Robin (1 December 1976)
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I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
quote by Lord Salisbury
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
quote by George Santayana
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
quote by Peter Singer
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
quote by Ray Charles
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Most Exclusive Residence For Sale
It was the biggest house in the neighborhood.
He went and bought this house when he made good.
Ten bedrooms and a swimming pool,
Where he entertained all the people that he knew.
But he hit the hard times and had to sell out.
Most exclusive residence for sale.
He went and spent all the money that he had.
Because he had a heart and not a head.
He spent it all on girls and fancy jewelry.
Then he found himself in front of a judge and jury,
And the judge said to pay up, our you must sell out.
Most exclusive residence for sale.
He had to tell all the servants to go away.
Couldnt even afford to pay their way.
He took to the bottle and drunk himself down,
Then he soaked away all the troubles and let them drown.
Then he saw a notice on the wall,
Most exclusive residence for sale.
Most exclusive residence for sale.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
song performed by by Kinks
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Dispensable
you must know
that you are indispensable
once when you outlive
utility
they ask you to take
a vacation
and tell you that they
will inform you
in case the need arises
that is how is it
now why be so sincere
when everyone
is always at the submission
of the usual dispensation.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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