Usage Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Real, Expression, Attention

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Husband, Animal, Land

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.75, Counterpoint Press

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• 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.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Two, Feet

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.36, Random House

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• 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.

  Vinton Cerf

  Country, Math, Space

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• 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.

  Richard Heinberg

  Years, Profound, Choices

  Richard Heinberg (2005). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, p.6, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage applies to any heavenly body other than the sun and moon) would be particularly likely to be involved, in the view of the heavy concentration of angels, both bad and evil, around the planet Earth.

  Henry M. Morris

  Stars, Angel, Biblical

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• 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.

  Larry Page

  Google, Innovation, Balance

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• 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.

  Virgil Goode

  Moving, Oil, Important

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• 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.

  Joseph Butler

  Christian, World, New Testament

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  John Lahr

  Kids, Civilization, Class

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Perspective, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

  Bill Gates

  Epidemics, Vaccines, Would Be

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• Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

  Carl Andre

  Turns, Universal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  Energy, Climate, Burning

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Political, Inheritance, Elements

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• I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

  Kevin Moffett

  Names, Sound, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Different, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

  David Bohm

  Order, Feelings, Mind

  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". Book by David Bohm, 1980.

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• I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, Payment, Interest

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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• Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  People, Brain, Winner

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• The usage of proper salt is really just a small piece of education. However, I want people to really get the proper nutrition from food for them and their family.

  Wolfgang Puck

  People, Pieces, Want

  "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.

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• People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

  Steven Pinker

  Track, People, Doe

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• Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

  Alexander Haig

  Mail, Way, Internet

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