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"The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself."
"Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset."
"The mind requires regular use to remain strong."
"Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control)."
"I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff."
"I use Twitter a lot. That's how I communicate with international fans. Everyone's always really, really nice."
"Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]"
"To discover the various use of things is the work of history."
"I don't at all care who's on the right or left or in the center. Even though we use them, even though I use them myself, these expressions have lost all meaning."
"The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use."
"It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property."
"Make good use of your time, it flies fast."
"The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]"
"In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]"
"By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn."
"My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace."
"When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too."
"Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness."
"You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself."
"I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist."
