"If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
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"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be."
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"Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used."
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"Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while"
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"The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground"
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"When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly."
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"My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us."
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"My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen."
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"I used to listen to what others said, and expect them to act accordingly. But nowadays, I listen to what they say, and then observe what they do."
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"And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords"
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"Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now"
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"When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be."
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"In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?"
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"In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose."
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"I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am."
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"My uncle used to love me, but she died."
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"I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover"
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"I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."
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"The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself."
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"We built your fort. We will not have it used against us."
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