"Use your power gently."
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"A good wit will make use of anything."
"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
"Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use."
"Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time."
"Fairies use flowers for their charactery."
"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor."
"Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues."
"If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it."
"I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea."
"Leadership is the intelligent use of power."
"I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you."
"You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling."
"Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you."
"You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style."
"Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force."
"I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out."
"It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio."
"There's no way to use power for good."
"I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now."