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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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• 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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• A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

  Paul McCartney

  Memories, Writing, Artist

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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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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• 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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• The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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• Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Vaccines, Fda

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• When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

  Bill Vaughan

  Psychology, Twists, Novelists

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• We don’t use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.

  Julie Klausner

  Phones, Age, Stills

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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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• The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

  Saul Bellow

  Powerful, Attention, Fields

  1989 Something To Remember Me By, preface.

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• We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Commodity, Harlots

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• Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.

  Keri Russell

  Imagination, Able, Kind

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe, There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy. There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". The CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Block, Thinking

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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• I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

  Anna Olson

  Writing, Exercise, Mind

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• I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Kids, Thinking, Imagination

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• To get into the character you have to really use your imagination.

  Michael Stahl-David

  Character, Imagination

  "Cloverfield – Interview with Michael Stahl-David". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. January 1, 2008.

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• The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Father, Character

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Church, Invention

  "The Age of Reason". Book by Thomas Paine, 1794.

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• Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

  Philip Larkin

  Work, Toads, Bills

  'Toads' (1955)

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• We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Cities, People

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• Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

  Cy Twombly

  Hands, Oil, Paint

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Kindness, Media, Regulation

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• In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.

  Edmund Waller

  Artist, Play, Knowing

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1796). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]”

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