"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."
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"Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters"
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"Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot."
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"When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image."
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"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
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"When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them."
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"Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before"
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"I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive."
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"Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end."
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"In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make."
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"Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them."
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"The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good."
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"All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative."
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"What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness."
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"But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up."
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"The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you."
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"For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life."
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"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit."
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"Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee."
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"Use almost can change the stamp of nature."
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