"I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had."
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"You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer."
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
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"Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)"
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"If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will."
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"The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use"
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"Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it."
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"I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use"
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"There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use."
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"Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing."
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"Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success."
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"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce."
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"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."
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"Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction."
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"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."
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"Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!"
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"Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument."
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"Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network."
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