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When Lenin came up with the term Useful Idiots, he was thinking of people who advocate such policies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » DoJ Attorneys in Dark About Surveillance Program: 2009
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Their tiles are all beautiful and the spirit of the Arts and Crafts philosophy of "Beautiful and Useful" is apparent in every work.
June 2007 2007
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Their tiles are all beautiful and the spirit of the Arts and Crafts philosophy of "Beautiful and Useful" is apparent in every work.
Weaver Tile 2007
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Useful, that is, not just for their future employment prospects, but also to equip them to become rounded human beings who desist from giving up the first time they taste failure or hit a hump on the bumpy road to maturity ?
It's our narrow view of education that holds pupils back | Yvonne Roberts 2011
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As one of their supporters you are nothing but what Lenin called a Useful idiot (or was it Marx).
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As one of their supporters you are nothing but what Lenin called a Useful idiot (or was it Marx).
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-- The Square, also called the Useful or Practical.
Palmistry for All Cheiro
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"Socrates said that the Useful is the Beautiful," said Denzil.
The Big Bow Mystery Israel Zangwill 1895
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The variety of good that is called the Useful lies within definite limits, between two wildernesses, so to speak, stretching out undefined into the distance, wilderness of Excess on the one side, and wilderness of Defect on the other.
Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888
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Useful, that is, to the people in that area instead of the Cult of Global Warming.
The Sundries Shack 2008
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