"One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back."
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"To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily."
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"Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision."
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"If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place."
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"Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done."
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"Every thing is of use to a houskeeper."
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"The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system."
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"NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives."
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"Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment."
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"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"
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"When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end."
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"The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living."
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"A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost."
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"You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords."
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"The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms."
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"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear."
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"... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed."
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"The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway."
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"I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?"
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"When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any."
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