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“So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.”

Long Use Certain Universe Asks Language Theory Structure Vocabulary Implied

Author:Michael Polanyi

“I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that... I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.”

Knows Use Certain Fall Answers Know How Trouble Relax Zombie Scenarios Falling Asleep Sniping

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”

Years Believe Stills Use Certain Decision Quality Accounts Sight Photographer Photograph Appropriate Vocabulary Embarrassing Compelled I Still Believe

Author:Robert Adams

“God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.”

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.”

Ifs Different Use Certain Song Next Example Treats Guitar Track Tunes

Author:Keith Richards

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

Way Writing Trying Use Shows Certain Song Given Differences Responsibility Talking Fans Listening Radio Making A Difference Writing Songs

Author:Randy Owen

“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”

Children Art Stills Use Certain Stuff Lines Creativity Talent Taught College Color Draws Collecting

Author:Beverly L. Kaye

“Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.”

Mean Use Certain Fun Dear Elephants Telephones Just For Fun Dear Me

Author:Laura E. Richards

“I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.”

Ifs Humans Doe Use Seems Action Certain Novel Dangerous Cost All Things Universal Rough Steers Artistry Effortless Practise Reefs Human Actions Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.”

War Reason Use Government Certain Given President Asking Congress Ships Germany Zone American Life Submarines War Zones

Author:George W. Norris

“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”

Knows Use Eye Certain Energy Can Do Levels Consciousness Know How Teacher Miracle Enlightened Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.”

Humans Soul Whole Character Use Form Certain Evil Human Beings Quality Heard Stronger Originals Notes Scales Occasions Tone Good And Evil Appearing Rare Occasion

Author:Fanny Kemble

“There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.”

Men Way Littles Character Use Past Certain Reading Observing Illuminating

Book:History in English Words by Owen Barfield

Source: History in English Words by Owen Barfield

“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.”

People Thinking Persons Real Hard Use Certain Turns Stuff Events Clothes Making Money Real Friends

Author:Sophie Monk

“The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.”

People Giving Use Problem Certain Names Speak Drug Abuse Jew Spokes Nazi Persecution Drug Abuse

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.”

People Thinking Way Writing Mean Use Feelings Certain Attitude Seeing Influence Subjects Style Produce Reader Determination Atmosphere

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.”

“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

“One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.”

Persons Use Certain Views West Tricks Rejected Distasteful

Author:Malcolm X

“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.”

“3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Reason Use Certain Sound Emotional Tools Add Colour Layers Saviour

Author:Tim Burton

“We know what willpower is, but by some misguided conception, many of us believe we have to be a certain type of person, strong, determined, extroverted, to be able to be willful, to exercise willpower. Not so. We all have it and just don't know how to use it.”

Knows Believe Persons Use Able Certain Strong Know How Type Exercise Determined Conception Willpower Misguided

Author:Rosemary Altea

“Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.”

Way Heart Kind May Stills Facts Use Light Seems Might Lying Certain Universe Lines Known Discovery Regard Deeper Genuine All Kinds Being True Explanation Phenomenon Shed Contradicting

Author:William Crookes

“Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.”

Mind Doe Helping Use Happens Pain Certain Humanity Dies Interest Compassion Type Concerned Various Purity Holiness Mastery After Death Unimportant Betterment Yogi

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.”

Thinking Littles Doe Reason Use Certain Differences Half Wonder One Thing Sea Rivers Wings Patterns Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Tied Wet Worn Worn Out Trout Nymphs Trimming

Author:Ray Bergman

“As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich.”

Use Earth Success Certain Realizing Careers Rich Buddhism Available

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819

“Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?”

People Thinking Littles Use Bigs Certain Empty Holes Bread Ass Holiday Vegan Turkeys Rice Beans November Ovens Bacteria Tofu Lentils

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Thinking Trying Long Use Certain Pleasure Mistake Achieve Comfort Profound Entertainment Happy Lasting Cheer Being Happy Deep Thought True Happiness Cheer Up Long Lasting Proxy

Author:Simon Pegg

“It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.”

World Giving Firsts Use Certain Difficult Honest Paper Fairs Presses Mediums Advertising Papers Advertisers

Book:If You Ask Me

Source: If You Ask Me

“A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.”

Use Certain Clear Groups Drug Behavior Evidence Attributes Drug Use Druggies

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.”

Ifs Giving Should Believe Use Certain Pieces Advice Dull Pencils

Author:Mary Ruefle

“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”