"I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people."
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"The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose."
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"If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people."
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"Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair."
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"Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'"
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"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
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"Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something."
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"A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink."
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"whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself."
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"I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."
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"What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out."
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"No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting."
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"Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'."
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"It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject."
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"The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds."
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"..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor."
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"Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?"
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"Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation."
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"Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting."
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"Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable."
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