"Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power."
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"I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be."
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"The Tao is like a well; used but never used up."
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"I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary."
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"Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in."
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"Walking is great to be used as an exercise program."
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"When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to."
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"I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it."
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"I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself."
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"Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."
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"[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour."
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"Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it."
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"Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
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"I used to get criticized for putting food in novels."
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"Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'."
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"I used to like studying a lot."
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"I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts."
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"I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant."
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