"I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary."
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"If it gets any hotter in here I could use a big fan."
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"As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from."
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"And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up."
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"Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life."
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"We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own."
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"I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use."
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"I never use that word, retire."
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"If you don't want to use your tax credit to go by health insurance, you don't have to. If you don't want to buy this plan, you want to buy that plan, go for it, it's your choice. It's called freedom. It's called free market health care."
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"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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"I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns."
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"I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term."
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"Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish."
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"Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground."
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"Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf."
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"To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language."
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"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
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"But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights."
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"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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