"At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly."
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"How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know."
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"We have time enough if we but use it aright"
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"We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it."
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"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour."
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"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work."
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"I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting."
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"We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense."
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"When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war."
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"Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them"
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"I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason."
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"He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him."
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"Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance."
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"Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them."
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"The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out."
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"American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use."
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"I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos."
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"When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'"
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