"Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship."
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"It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody."
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"We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change."
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"When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use)."
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"Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind."
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"I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people."
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"Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge."
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"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both."
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"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."
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"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature."
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"I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft."
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"It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far."
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"There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart."
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"Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses."
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"If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now."
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"Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life."
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"But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act."
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"It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism."
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"You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it."
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"It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them."
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