Carl Andre
Artist
"Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over."
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Usage
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal."
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"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
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