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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Men, Tyrants

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Girl, Fortune

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• Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Regret, Men

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• Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Art, Lying, Men

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• 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.

  Marvin Minsky

  Book, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Fellowship, Get Up

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3841, e-artnow

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• The criminal law is no use to decent people.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Law, People, Criminals

  1906 Sir Patrick.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

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• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?

  James Anthony Froude

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.16

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• We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

  H. G. Wells

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

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• In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thoughtful, People, World

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”

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• THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Lying, Technology, Genius

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.432, Princeton University Press

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• But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Liberty, Speak

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.485, Princeton University Press

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• What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  States, Policy, Trade

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.251, Princeton University Press

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• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Punctuation Marks, Confusing

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney (Foreword, p. 13), 2003.

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• It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Book, Writing, Order

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Running, Punctuality

  "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, p. 928, 1915.

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• In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Men, Israel

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Littles, Might, Silver

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.34, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Can Do

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “What the Moon Saw and Other Tales”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Might, Slave

  Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.245

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• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.

  Victoria Finlay

  Dust, Blood, Space

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• We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.

  Ruben Papian

  Honesty, Self, Water

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.7

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• It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer.... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Important, Alternatives

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