"What use are socks? They only produce holes."
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"Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them."
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"Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations."
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"Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence."
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"THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE."
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"We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination."
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"Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources."
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"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."
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"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."
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"The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible."
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"Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it."
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"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."
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"I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted."
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"Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use."
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"All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning."
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"We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns."
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"A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal."
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"As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture."
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"The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS"
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"'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better."
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