"I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one."
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"What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use."
"[I do] my manicure/pedicure once a week. When I'm on the road, I use the hotel or whoever I call. But in Miami I have my own person."
"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
"The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience."
"I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better."
"The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it."
"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
"you must not use wood to put out the fire."
"The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it."
"Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]"
"Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you"
"Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently."
"Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily."
"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."
"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft."
"A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing."
"Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."
"Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them."
"The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."