"I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact."
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"The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of pretext. We can no longer use the Russians as an excuse, as we did in Central America in the 1980's, so drugs will have to do."
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"If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple."
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"First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it."
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"There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial."
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"The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it."
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"Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose."
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"I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon."
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"What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
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"Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period."
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"The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word."
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"My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them."
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"I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up."
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"The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application."
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"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
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"I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly."
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"What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?"
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"The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories."
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"Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them."
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"The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there."
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