"I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like."
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"The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit."
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"Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed."
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"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."
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"What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?"
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"Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks."
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"Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public."
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"If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it."
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"It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients."
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"Please use your freedom to promote ours."
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"The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end."
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"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes."
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"I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes."
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"A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown."
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"I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy."
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"For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy."
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"If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect."
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"All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact"
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"Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence."
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"Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies."
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