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“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

Men Should Writing Has Beens Two Book Different Use Able Courses Language Written Century Letters Originals Titles Theme Copies Apes Imitator Use Of Language

Book:Planet of the Apes

Source: Planet of the Apes

“Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.”

Should Self Use Interest Technology Support Involved Clean Enlightened Capture Carbon Self Interest Defence Enabling Storage Crank Hydrocarbons

Author:Nicholas Stern

“A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.”

Should Humans Use Sides Dark Human Nature Expression Criticism Uniforms Ugliness Dark Side Indignation

Author:Mo Yan

“What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.”

Should Said States Use Political Becoming Available Nuclear Iran Capability Vehicle Diplomatic Concur

Author:Mitt Romney

“Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.”

People Should Use Reality Government Suffering Hurt Produce Officials Landmines

Author:Jackie Chan

“Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.”

Men Should Use Home Design Concepts

Author:Eva Zeisel

“Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.”

Should Use Lines Opinion Technology Worst Approach All Time Code Software Metrics Malpractice

Book:Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality

Source: Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality

“Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?”

Knows Should Use Jesus Heaven Gods Will Oppression Should I Affliction Delay Humiliation Knowing God

Book:As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments

Source: As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments

“I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end. I adore her style. She loves fashion, she’s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.”

Should Ends Use Imagination Century Fashion Style Late Strive Welcome Fantastic 21st Century Adore Icons Unafraid Style Icons Love Fashion Dior Better Late Than Never

Author:Beverly Johnson

“I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

“I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Ideas Use Suffering Fall Causes Lines Nice Scene Crisis Clean Wander Havoc Ascending

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.”

Feels Should May Use Used Useless

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.”

Ifs Way Should Looks States Enough Use Hands Principles Policy Huge Demand Aspect Economics Mess Beer Gas Regulation Transportation Preventing Daycare

Author:Jeffrey Tucker

“Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.”

Should Art Use Term Clear Style Photography Art Is Photographer Useless Sophisticated Documents Documentaries Mislead

Author:Walker Evans

“When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.”

Should May Book Use Reading Advice Application Maxims Books And Reading

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.”

Ifs Should Use Beautiful Poor Poverty Temptation Beautiful Women Her Beauty Circumspection

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.”

Should Country Use Lines Military Policy Tools Claims Strategy Democratic Soldier Operations Borders Employee Spheres Interfere Definite Statesmen Subservient Democratic Country

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“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.”

“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

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

Men Should Use Common Special Property Disposition Benevolence Benevolent Legislators

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.”

Should Persons Use Quality Too Much Dangerous Please Spite Satire Refined

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.”

Should Use Energy Term Expenditures

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.”

Ifs Should Use Seems Color Models Copying

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.”

Should Use Light Stones Burning Sparks Pipe Shepherds Radiance Dazzle Women Beauty

Author:Joan Miro

“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.”

People Men Should May States Use America Water Industry Flow Rivers Environmental One Man Sewers Rivers And Water Water Pollution

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.”

Men Should Humans Mean Whole Use Christian Heaven Dark Liberty Taken Circumstances Blessing Judgment Army Foolishness Our Founding Fathers Prudent Us Founding Fathers

Author:John Hancock

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.”

Should May Use Light Used Religion Atheism Teaching Evolution Discovery Instruments Gravity Introducing Electricity Precision Unreasonable Telescopes Microscopes Clauses Velocity

Author:Luther Burbank

“Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.”

Should Self Use Hands Desire Energy Enemy Conflict Weapons Negative Possession Reputation Demon Attachment Frightened True Self Rejecting Negative Energy

Author:Teresa Giudice

“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.”

Ifs Men Should Book Use Remember Turns Evil Social Practice Every Man Newspapers Magazines Speakers Truthful Platforms Exposure Relentless Social Life Hail Severity Benefactors

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.”

Should Use Able Pieces Months Six Add Timeless Six Months Wardrobe

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.”

People Should Use Community Company Waste Majors Rivers Excuse Oil Chemicals Toxic No Excuses Dump Eco Spades Pipeline Sewage Toxic Waste Refinery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.”

Men Should Doe Use Rights Land Should Have

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.”

Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.”

Way Should Art Use Spirit Path Five Blood Produce Masters Aspect Rose Fortune Fingers Mediums Magician Witchcraft Mystic Thorns Entrances Old Ways Fortune Teller

Author:Raven Grimassi

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.”

Men Should Children Doe Soul Use Young Oneself My Soul Young Man Beast Affected Tyrants Ruling Cattle Wild Beasts

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”

“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.”

Should Use Work Week Six Bills Wit Poison Soil Proportion Should I Brutes Toads Squat Days Of The Week Pitchforks

Author:Philip Larkin

“Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.”

Men World Way Should Littles Stills Use Poor Wonder

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he would; and that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously, when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.”

Ifs Men Should Use Loses Punishment Deprived

Book:Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

“I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.”

Ifs Should Use Government Law Doctors Agree Majority Patient Medical Favors Voters Marijuana Physicians Interfere Legislation Federal Government Prohibition Approved Overdue

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.”

Men Giving Should Mean Doe Made Reason Use Purpose Goal Clear Ready Depends Resources Instinct Vain Indication Prodigals

Author:Immanuel Kant

“To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.”

Ifs Men Should Made Book Use Fit Clothes Tailors Printer

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”

Should Use Artist Language Instinct Phrases Suggestions Simplest Distinguished Great Writers Selective Triviality Homely

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Way Should Mind Wells Important Matter Use Reality Artist Goal Clear Special Style Draws Importance No Matter What Insight Drawing Encounters

Book:The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Source: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”

Should May Use Able Order Sides Practice Cases Ought Opposites Solve Arguing Reasoning Unfair

Author:Aristotle

“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.”

Ifs Should Years Firsts Wells Has Beens Whole Use Views India Twenties London Setting Ships Settings Prophet Score Forty Sail Captains Wiser Voyages Port Deck Brat Thames

Book:The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays