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"Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly."
"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
"Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field."
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
"We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness."
"In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver."
"The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you."
"The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head."
"I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better."
"It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate."
"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
"The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!"
"The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration."
"So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends."
"I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
"Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation."
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
"I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music."
"Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use."
