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"If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma."
"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."
"Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!"
"I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'."
"I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it."
"If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless."
"We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel."
"Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess."
"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"
"I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists."
"God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing"
"If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?"
"My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody."
"You got to use what you got to get just what you want."
"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
"Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible."
"We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them."
"Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life."
"If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that."
"It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right"
