U Quotes
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“Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.”
“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”
Source: Commentaries on Living
“Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive now. Alternatively, any young scientist, starting now and looking back at the end of his career upon a normal life span, will find that 80 to 90 percent of all scientific work achieved by the end of the period will have taken place before his very eyes, and that only 10 to 20 percent will antedate his experience.”
“Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.”
“Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.”
“Using brand licensed content is not stealing but it is plagiarism.”
“Using clichés is a substitute for thinking”
“Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].”
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.”
“Using copyrighted material without consent to train commercial AI models, is like robbing a bank to start a business.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)
“Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.”
“Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.”
“Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.”
“Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.”
“Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time.”
Source: The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug with a Digital Detox
“Using fake feelings and relying on a trick box of artificial gadgets in order to create a simulation of desire, will not unravel the knotty puzzle to reinvent oneself. ( “Twilight of desire “ )”
“Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.”
“Using force to get a point across is like a castrated man trying to rape a young woman.”
“Using gender-neutral language isn't about being politically correct, it's just about being correct.”
“Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.”
“Using his copper knife, he cuts a segment of bark from a dying birch tree. Laying the birch bark on a flat rock, he scrapes the dry inner part of the bark with his knife, developing a small pile of dry fibers that resemble sawdust. The friction soon turns to heat, smoke, and flame.”
Source: Great Water: The Lost Mines of Lake Superior
“Using his unemployment checks, he placed at least 151 bets totaling $14,000 over the course of February, losing $2,300. He kept going, gambling multiple times a day almost every day for nearly six months, resulting in a net loss of $7,250. With his mental health deteriorating and a void in his bank account where all the money he gambled should have been, he decided that something needed to change. He moved back in with his parents, outside of Wichita, Kansas. His career, his finances, and his life had been thrown off track. Gambling, he said, “tore me apart.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.”
“using incense you can release prayers to the heavens (celestial realms) offering upward all cares or strife..”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.”
Source: The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies
“Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any more”
“Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.”
“Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.”
“Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.”
Source: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
“Using less time to produce more is intelligent, then why do intelligent people choose to multitask?”
Source: Quantraz
“Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.”
“Using lube has been known to make penetrative sex last longer, and even a drop in the well of a condom can make wearing one a lot more comfy.”
Source: Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life
“Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)”
“Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.”
“Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.”
“Using my music may seem fair to you, but note that music composers have never been dealt a fair card.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid 'ancillary' jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work'.”
“Using names with respect and consideration tells a person that you care, are present and engaged, and that you are genuinely interested in making a connection. You make them feel remembered!”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.”
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
Source: Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body
“Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.”
“Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven,
Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.”
“Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.”
“Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.”
Source: Small Town Demons
“Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“Using one style would be very boring to me. I love to play with all kind of images and combinations because it makes the results a lot more interesting and entertaining.”
“Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.”
“Using only audio software and recordings of ducks quacking and splashing in water, I make intergender music. That way you can ponder if you are truly Disney Trans enough for modern society while you dance with yourself.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes