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“Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them”

Use Loses Ability Faculty

Author:John Lubbock

“Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.”

Ifs May I Can Use Faces Wish Ability Existence Offers Eternal Lazy After Death No Hope Hope Death

Author:Seth

“Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.”

Use Ability Talent

Author:George Allen

“Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.”

Use Desire Given Ability Principles Depends Capacity Obsession Burning Affirmation Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Self Talk Burning Desire Desire To Win

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“All you can do is learn the skills of movies. Neither colleges nor anyone else can teach you creativity. They can teach you abilities to work with - you know how to use the gifts you've been born with.”

Knows Use Can Do Born Ability Teach Creativity Know How College Skills

Author:Frank Capra

“I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.”

People Thinking Persons Use Earth Ability Space Minutes Projects Ethics Dollars Various Spending Flight Wealthy Space Flight

Author:Arthur Frommer

“The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

Has Beens Real Use Seems Interest Ability Views Records Difficulty Variety Publish Publication Present Day

Author:Vannevar Bush

“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.”

“Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.”

People Giving Use Force Ability Watches Careful Spy Watchers

Author:Rand Paul

“The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.”

People Use Force Ability Civilians

Author:Rand Paul

“I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.”

People Thinking Men Use Seems Young Individual Force Black Ability Lord Car Amount Lifetime Video Disturbed

Author:Rand Paul

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”