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"Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them."
"A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy."
"He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity."
"No use going to class unless you go to the library."
"I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with."
"Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?"
"I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life."
"It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation."
"I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security."
"I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity."
"I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly."
"Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money."
"When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person."
"The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom."
"No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one."
"By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated."
"It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead."
"Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?"
"The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless."
"Our business is to have great credit and to use it little."
