"The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium."
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"Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?"
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"Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends."
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"Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it."
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"Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!"
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"It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen."
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"The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it."
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"Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists"."
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"Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them."
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"What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?"
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"Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time."
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"I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam."
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"I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic."
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"I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by."
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"All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for."
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"I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness."
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"The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital."
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"Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him."
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"We don't use guns because we don't have guns"
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"A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee."
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