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• Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain there is no one to protect.

  Katherine Applegate

  Father, Order, Troops

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew.

  Seth Shostak

  Air, People, House

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• Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Successful, People, Talent

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• A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.

  S. R. Ranganathan

  Depressing, Book, Home

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• Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

  George Eliot

  Men, Vegetables, Desire

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

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• Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Mind, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.143, George Eliot

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• To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Responsibility, Exercise

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Groups, Common, Enough

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.406, Modern Library

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• Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.

  Hans Arp

  Struggle, Son, Python

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• The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Order, Language, Form

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: Roles, masks and performances”

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• I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, Color

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 174), 2013.

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• If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Denial, Concerned

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.14, Random House

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• 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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Records, Gaps

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

  Malcolm X

  Views, West, Certain

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• My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

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• The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

  Maria Montessori

  Tasks, Instruction, Sufficient

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 7, 1948.

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• I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

  Robert Browning

  Book, People, Feelings

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.267, e-artnow sro

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• My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

  Tommy Lasorda

  People, Looks, Today

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

  Fergus Henderson

  Animal, Polite, Whole

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• I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
  others the impression that they are.

  Edith Head

  Beautiful, Clothes, Giving

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

  Stacy London

  Feel Good, Feelings, Style

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• Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, He Man

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• I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

  Siegfried Woldhek

  Names, Ideas, Drawing

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• The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Class, Steps

  "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy". Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 15, 1987.

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