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“I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.”

People Ifs Want Mean Hard Use Hurt Pages Foolish Call Me Disability Bully Whatever It Takes Retarded Facebook Page It Really Hurts

Author:Lauren Potter

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.”

Ifs Use Courses Belief Language Acceptance Implied

Author:Michael Polanyi

“Your voice dries up if you don't use it.”

Author:Patti Page

“President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.”

Ifs Trying Has Beens Said Ideas Use President Opponents President Obama Tactics Attacking Stale Fresh Ideas

Author:Rob Portman

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Stories Use Opportunity Social Deals Technology Media Social Media Traditional Publishers New Technology Proactive

Author:Ian Rankin

“The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Humans Use Race Trouble Human Race Analogies Malls World Of Warcraft

Author:John Romero

“If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.”

Ifs Thinking Two Enough Use Social Causes Church Security Percent Foundation Charity Checks Wealthy Social Security Tanks Your Favorite Good Causes Synagogue

Author:Mark Skousen

“Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them.”

People Ifs Way Use Energy Hurt Hook Wraps

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.”

Ifs Way Use Courses Winning Balance Battle Enlightenment Strategy Inevitable Confrontation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.”

Ifs Use Wish Buddhism Balance Enlightened Life Balance Unlocking

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Use Buddhism Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.”

Ifs Feels Writing Wells Stories Use Can Do Novel Written Fine Dialogue Necks Short Story You Can Do It Tire Being Positive Dialect Rave

Author:Anne Lamott

“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”

Ifs Writing Believe Wells Use Might Energy Opinion Identity Pure Ego Believe In You Willpower

Author:William Zinsser

“It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.”

People Ifs Feels Use Artist Song Asks Decision Nice How You Feel

Author:Jared Leto

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.”

Ifs Want Use Punishment Deportation

Author:Tom Tancredo

“If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.”

Ifs Use Conditions Information Judging Method Court Confinement Interrogation

Author:John Yoo

“Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.”

Ifs Use Force Clear Members Approach Engaged Permit Articles Conventions Civilians Coalitions Armed Forces Interrogation Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:John Yoo

“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Heart Use Meditation Progress Buddhism Treats Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

Ifs Mind Self Use Light Universe Perfect Quality Clear Meditation Buddhism Infinite Originals Coming Back Sense Of Self Radiant Identifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.”

Ifs Soul Use Faces Universe Growth Views Willing Happenings Optimism Encouragement Adversity Point Of View Optimistic Fabric Woven

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“The vibration of appreciation is also the highest, fastest vibration we can use for attraction. If we would shoot appreciation at anything and everything, all day long, we'd be guaranteed to have heaven on earth in no time, living happily ever after with more friends, more money, more beautiful relationships, in total safety, and closer to the God of our Being than it's possible to fathom.”

Source: Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings

“If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.”

Ifs Years Use Records Movement Months Phones Cells Cell Phone Wireless Carrier

Author:Al Franken

“If you can solve your problem, what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, what is the use of worrying.”

Ifs Needs Use Problem Worry Solve

Author:Shantideva

“If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.”

Ifs Use Faces Used Unique Crowds Digital Your Face Accurate Files Likelihood Fingerprints Large Crowds

Author:Al Franken

“If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.”

Ifs Want Years Use Easy Figures Messages Developing Target Ads Email Somewhere Else Port

Author:Al Franken

“Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.”

Ifs Use Ability Attention Stones Hood Stepping Stones Flashy

Author:Richard Widmark

“Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?”

Ifs Writing Use Song Vision Vision Of Life

Author:Rufus Wainwright