not helpful
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
First, kill all the math classes beyond algebra. Stop wasting so much of our students' time learning math. It's not useful, it's not helpful.
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
Al Franken deserves condemnation, but President Trump's intervention, given his own self-confessed misconduct, makes what should be bipartisan seem merely partisan. Not helpful. Pots and kettles, Mr. President, pots and kettles.