"I wanted to use sports for social change."
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"Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return."
"Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force."
"To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd."
"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition."
"I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can."
"The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way."
"I will speak daggers to her, but use none."
"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television."
"We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living."
"Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons."
"Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you."
"You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'."
"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
"Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?"
"What we need is to use what we have."
"The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem."
"For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me."
"The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds."