"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be"
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"All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him."
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"Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that."
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"No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used."
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"We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities."
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"I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation."
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"My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world."
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"Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either."
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"Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation."
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"I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia."
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"Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume."
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"Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission."
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"I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect."
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"I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used."
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"One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment."
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"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire."
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"Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn."
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"Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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"Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?"
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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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