"Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity."
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"He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable."
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"A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody."
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"Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation."
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"Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has."
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"The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own."
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"Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better."
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"Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say."
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"No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another."
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"Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise."
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"Don't lose your temper; use it."
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"Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies."
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"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."
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"People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides."
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"I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities."
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"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
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"Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda."
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"There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely."
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"Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough."
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"Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old."
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