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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
When the signal is weak, the phone is working more, you drain the battery faster, so only use a phone when the signal is weak in a true emergency.
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'
I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.
The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.
Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.
I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.
The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.
Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.
The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.
Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.
I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there.
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.
But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.
Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.