"Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too."
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"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music."
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"The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way."
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"A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
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"Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again."
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"Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time."
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"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"
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"Use the right word, not its second cousin."
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"I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs."
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"Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow."
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"We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses."
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"I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me."
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"Make sure you comfort everybody, because you have so much power. The influence you do have, make sure you use that for the right things that's going to propel you, and propel your company. It's not always about making profit. I know y'all know how to make profit, and I know that's what it's about! But I'm very happy that I can come here and tell you I'm someone that has not been driven by the profit. You can succeed with the people."
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"[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there."
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"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
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"Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure."
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"So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff."
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"Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions"
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