"I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along."
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"Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it."
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"Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force."
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"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man."
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"A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up."
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"The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them."
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"Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die."
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"Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one."
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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
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"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence."
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"All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life."
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"I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object."
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"What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?"
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"Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you."
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"My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it."
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"There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again."
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"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
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"A life without impact and contribution is a very empty life, so use your life to make the world better."
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