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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

  Bill Vaughan

  Land, California, Agriculture

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• The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Communication, Air, Law

  "International News Service v. Associated Press". Dissenting opinion, 1918.

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• To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

  Karl Marx

  Various

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

  John Selden

  Mean, Men, Law

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.164

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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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• 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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• I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

  Rick Santorum

  African American, Black, Term

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Way, Advantage, Currents

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued

  Albert Outler

  Doe, Term, Misconstrued

  Albert Cook Outler, Thomas C. Oden (1991). “The Wesleyan Theological Heritage: Essays of Albert C. Outler”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

  ASAP Ferg

  Fashion, Art, Grace

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Tools, Method, Activity

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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