"Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness."
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"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
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"One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones."
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"I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best."
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"When in doubt, use nutrition first."
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"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
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"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."
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"Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'."
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"I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through."
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"Don't use big words. They mean so little."
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"Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own."
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"True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency."
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"90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related."
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"We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives."
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"Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do."
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"~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~"
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"How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose."
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"Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project."
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"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"
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