"It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off."
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"It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday."
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"Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use."
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"We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time."
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"He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer."
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"Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here."
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"Girl? He pressed. The name is Riley, she shot back. Learn it. Use it!"
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"I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous."
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"The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us."
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"We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words."
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"A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?"
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"... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another."
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"Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings."
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"Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves."
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"Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI."
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"I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things."
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"Use your past as one of your mentors."
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"The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources."
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"Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth."
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"I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner."
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