"For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce."
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"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."
"No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts."
"Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?"
"It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point."
"Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young."
"Before you use a fancy word, make room for it."
"Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom."
"The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process."
"As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved."
"We must use time creatively."
"Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all."
"God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself."
"Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you."
"The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart."
"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."
"He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have."
"We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives."
"When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue."
"You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for."