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Author:Amy Lockwood

“Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.”

“Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.”

Humans Mean Use Common Economy Share Economic Waste Resources Responsible Definitions Consumers Damage Appropriate Goods Lions Consumerism Economist Dictionary Overconsumption Oxford

Author:Alan Thein Durning

“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.”

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.”

Source: Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

“In Heaven, a lot of things will be different, but many things are going to be the same, enough so that we'll still be able to use much of the knowledge, skills, talents and experience that we have gained in this life. God will not allow all the training we have received to be wasted.”

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Author:David Berg

“Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there!”

Thinking Made Facts Use Beautiful Girl Heaven Cities Heavenly Bless Beautiful Things Brides God Bless Jerusalem Beautiful Girl

Author:David Berg

“Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.”

Use Might Practice Rocks Objects Flames Relax Concentration Candle Might Use

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.”

Want Use Flower Flames Concentration Candle

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.”

Mind Use Moving Process Essentials Perception Flow Sight Concentration Dominant Sense Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis”

Ifs Men Use Fall Business Rounds Dull Bows Preparing Cheerful Amusement Monotony Paralysis Idiocy Archery

Author:Herodotus

“I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."”

Thinking Use Funny Stupid Immoral Unethical Wrong Words

Author:Ivan Boesky

“And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.”

“Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.”

“Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.”

Persons Country Use Earth Energy Nations Waste Standards Alternatives Germany Japan Other Countries Standards Of Living Imports Sweden

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].”

“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Thinking World Should Mind Use Earth Values Heaven Easy Difficult Wealth Sun Air Sea Glory Fairs Environmental Pleasant Glorious Sensible Profitable Giver Delighted

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.”

Men Should Use Might Earth Common Rights All Things Environmental Possession Transformed Usurpation

Author:Ambrose

“The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.”

Source: Carpe Diem: Seize the Day

“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.”

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Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.”

Mind Use Moving Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Flow Remove Finding Yourself Willpower Dwelling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.”

Way Use Figures Buddhism Exercise Mindfulness Gains Best Way Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.”

Ideas Use Records Tape Recorders

Author:John Frusciante

“I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.”

People World Use Computer Instruments Impressed Peta

Author:John Frusciante

“The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.”

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Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.”

Ifs Want Kind Made Use Names Talent Hollywood Spoil

Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.”

“Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.”

People Use Patterns Karma Free Will

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.”

Mean Use Natural Safe Raises Vegetables Bugs

Author:Julia Child

“I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in photography, have been around a lot longer than neon colors and really vibrant purples, hot pinks. Red, blue, yellow, orange - because of Kodachrome and the way that things were produced I think that those colors stood out more than any others.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Use Color Photography Red Hot Blue Primaries Classic Yellow Orange Neon Primary Colors Hot Pink

Author:Alex Prager

“Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.”

People Country Use Moving Dies Deals Each Day

Author:Tom Coburn

“All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.”

People Needs Giving Use Wanted Culture Felt Voice Challenges Break Rights Wall Womens Rights Break Out Exhibitions Graffiti

Author:Malina Suliman

“I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles.”

Use Kids Brother Mom My Mom Accidents My Brother Bike Motorcycle

Author:John Travolta

“If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.”

Ifs Knows Stories Use Half

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.”

Thinking Knows May Use Kids Remember Nations Teacher Unique Tests Score Test Scores

Author:John Merrow

“I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them”

People Ifs Believe Use Mother I Believe Benefits Claims Available Entitled Entitlement

Author:Chris Bowen

“Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.”

People Thinking Use Direct Straightforward Blunt

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.”

Writing Use Paper Cracks

Author:Stephen Fry

“Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.”

People Kind Play Use Games Team Style Adjectives

Author:Rachel Martin

“We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.”

Use Grows

Author:Agnes Denes

“I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.”

Ideas Use Cutting Singers Smoke Heat Bad Ideas

Author:Willie Nelson

“I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?”

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Author:Elizabeth Banks

“When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.”

Use Actors Good Actors

Author:Sam Waterston

“I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one.”

Use Jobs Needed Lucky Computer Weirdo

Author:Bill Nighy

“It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.”

Play Use Fun Powerful Weapons Aspect Sexuality Being A Woman

Author:Ruth Wilson

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