"We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers."
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"I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be."
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"The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it."
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"I'm addicted to chocolate. I used to snort cocoa."
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"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."
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"Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used."
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"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."
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"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."
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"I used to a lot. I used to go dancing."
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"It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats."
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"I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording."
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"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
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"I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints."
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"Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune."
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"Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age."
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"People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation."
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"He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing."
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"It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling."
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"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."
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"My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you."
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