"You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it."
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"A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it."
"And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss."
"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."
"Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it."
"There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity."
"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
"Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand."
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out."
"What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?"
"I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole."
"There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad."
"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."
"There is a use for almost everything."
"THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation."
"There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself."
"I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences."
"You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend."
"I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me."
"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language."