"Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology."
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"The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site."
"I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language."
"He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood."
"Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force."
"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."
"The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure."
"Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary."
"There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again."
"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
"The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice."
"The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"
"Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it."
"The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?"
"God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment."
"I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me."
"Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit."
"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
"You use sex to express every emotion except love."