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“It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.”

Feels Should Language Difficult Term Interesting Break Mines Pages Breakup English Language Break Up Paragraph Usage

Author:A. E. van Vogt

“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”

Ifs Men World Humans Mean Existence Achieve Perception Capacity Traditional Persistence Realms Engaged Entity Human Existence Receptive Usage

Author:Medard Boss

“One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.”

Made Problem Kids Girl Sex Details Modesty Anatomy Explicit Usage Condom Physiology Sex Education

Author:James Dobson

“Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Said Bits Fine Drug Responsible Try Again Usage Portrayal

Author:Gerald McRaney

“I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.”

War Humanity Occasions Civil War Civilized Warfare Disregard Usage

Author:Robert E. Lee

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Whole Today Artist Passion Magic Car Creation Objects Population Supreme Eras Consumed Gothic Cathedrals Usage

Author:Roland Barthes

“An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.”

Believe Matter Facts Bigs Reality Blind Track Available Denial Optimist Naive Grim Realist Big Picture Usage Proactive Optimal

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.”

Real Results Millions Return Deeper Scales Handle Each Day Engagement Location Usage Foursquare

Author:Andrew Hogue

“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.”

Knows Men Made Matter Light Faces Young Forget Sea Danger Elements Mood Tales Young Man Rough Contemplating Voyages Exaggeration Usage

Book:The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum

“It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.”

Important Ends States Moving United United States Speed Oil Moving Forward Alternatives Fuel Dependence Deliberate Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward Usage Foreign Oil

Author:Virgil Goode

“We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.”

Needs Wells Doe Today Term Products Internet Balance Innovation Partners Significant Streams Fund Engines Google Revenue Emerging Usage

Author:Larry Page

“We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only significant choice we will have will be how we adjust to this new regime. That choice - not whether, but how to reduce energy usage and make a transition to renewable alternatives - will have profound ethical and political ramifications.”

Years Political Choices Energy Effort Profound Environmental Available Significant Alternatives Eras Ethical Transition Regimes Humankind Usage New Era Ramifications

Book:The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

Source: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

“Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.”

Ifs Country Use Can Do Space Growing Internet Needed Thirds China Math Just One Addresses Usage

Author:Vinton Cerf

“If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.”

Ifs Men World Generations This World Treats Property Ancient Conservative Lust Sensual Enjoyment Reverence Consumed Gratification Future Generation Private Property Usage

Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”

People Ifs Knows Should Language Tradition Spread Imitation Usage

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.”

Ifs Two Facts Girl Feet Drink Logic Pleasant Professors Grammar Bosoms Spit Usage

Book:Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

“This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.”

Source: Elements of Style

“The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.”

Kind Programming Decline Aggravation Usage Javascript

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.”

Ifs Should Hard Violence Crime Drug Prison Committed Non Violence Usage

Author:Ron Paul

“USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.”

Firsts May Persons Long Book Hope Fashion Produce Holy Thirds Decent Customs Reverence First Person Trinity Usage Industrious Conventionality Triads

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.”

Deals Moral Mankind Development Intellectual Responsible Factors Selfishness Individualism Packages Arrested Usage Moral Development

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”

Use Care Lasts Animal Results Land Produce Husband Plant Soil Manifest Agriculture Usage Plants And Animals

Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

“There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.”

Ifs Soul Interest Loss Party Honest Masters Thirds Silent Rate Debt Fulfillment Contracts Strokes Payment Bargains Compounds Ungrateful Usage Compound Interest

Book:Select Essays and Poems

Source: Select Essays and Poems

“Usage is like oxygen for ideas.”

Ideas Oxygen Usage

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.”

Body Death Left Position Weapons Sitting Victim Remains Wounds Fixed Stakes Pierce Usage

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.”

Roles Design Economics Impact Insight Designer Aesthetics Strategic Viewpoints Usage

Author:John Maeda

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.”

Way Genius Manners Strokes Usage Hardened

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.”

Ifs Trying Done Compassion Drug Harm Punishment Atmosphere Dramatic Treatment Users Devoted Reduction Fractions Prohibition Usage Rehabilitation Drug Prohibition

Author:Milton Friedman

“We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.”

Problem Kids Term White Common Class Middle Civilization Western Decades Income Middle Class Western Civilization Usage Mobility

Author:John Lahr

“In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.”

World Real Attention Expression Draws Violent Passing Passings Real World Symptoms Dutch Intellectualism Usage

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.”

World Christian Written Conditions Particular Testament New Testament Usage

Book:Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue

Source: Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue

“That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.”

Way Use Form Language Term Common Becoming Criminals Obscure Intrigued Usage Slang Use Of Language

Author:Ricky Jay

“I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.”

Knows Mind Character Shows Reality Care Watches Don't Care Usage Reality Shows

Author:Joe Dante

“What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Stills Use Lasts Film Understanding Term Common Audience Know How Shelves Niche Usage Shelf Life

Author:Joe Dante

“Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.”

Awareness Strange Safe Galaxy Usage Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Ford Prefect Arthur Dent

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact.”

Way Facts Values Culture Lost Cutting Recognition Fixed Officials Loaded Cognitive Nato Usage Transcending Connotation Ussr Abbreviations

Author:Herbert Marcuse

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