"Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck"
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"It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself."
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"The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it."
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"we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally"
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"I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright."
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"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well."
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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"[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical."
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"We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul."
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"There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it."
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"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
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"I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough."
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"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."
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"The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature."
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"Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you."
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"All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind."
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"He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation."
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"Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy."
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