"It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you."
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"I found the best way is to use Chiropractors, not only after injury, but also before injury."
"Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself."
"A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament."
"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
"All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original."
"I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted."
"The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate."
"To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out."
"Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are."
"He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates."
"Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past."
"In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four."
"In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do."
"Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose."
"In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides."
"The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much."
"The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I AM that's incongruent with God is really taking the Lord's name in vain!"
"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
"So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear."