"A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use."
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"What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return"
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"I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them."
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"If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do."
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"Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'."
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"Use memories. Do not let memories use you."
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"We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters."
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"It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it."
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"It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
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"It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles."
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"I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying."
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"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception"
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"... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!"
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"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."
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"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."
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"Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer."
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"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."
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"To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it"
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