"[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display]."
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"Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths."
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"Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness."
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"Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk."
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"Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to."
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"Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do."
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"If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public."
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"I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to."
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"Go with your gut, but use your head."
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"Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be using yours."
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"I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper."
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"It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."
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"When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time."
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"In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics."
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"But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him."
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"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar."
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"To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives."
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"Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?"
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"My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse."
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"In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents."
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