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There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.
This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.
If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.
Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and its moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. Its so gentle.
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
There is no more fulfilling experience in all the world than the sense that God's Spirit has taken you and dared to use you for His glory.
Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
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.
If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when my dog gets into a fight with a skunk.
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.
Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves
One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.
"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
Q: Prove God doesn’t exist. A: That’s a tough one. Show me how it’s done by proving Zeus and Apollo don’t exist, and I’ll use your method.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.