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"But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake."
"All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!"
"To know and not to use is not yet to know!"
"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"
"Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain."
"In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to " redeem the time " which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem time. We redeem time, and do not merely use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright."
"A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head."
"Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship."
"When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth."
"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge."
"Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!"
"Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us."
"Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites."
"We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude."
"You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it."
"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."
"Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use."
"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
"As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living."
"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
