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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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• 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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• 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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• Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Stars, Ideas, Roots

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• No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

  Dan Thompson

  Meaningful, Technique, Want

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• Justin's fan are called Beliebers because it's politically incorrect to use the word retards.

  Natasha Leggero

  Fans, Retard, Beliebers

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• People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

  Sophie Monk

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  Dan Pallotta

  Sweet, Long, Risk

  Dan Pallotta (2012). “Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Vision, Research, Today

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• The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.97, Macmillan

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• The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 1900.

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• It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he would; and that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously, when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Should, Ifs

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.9

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• Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

  Zig Ziglar

  Unique, Opportunity, Giving

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.26, AudioInk

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• Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.

  Randall Jarrell

  Determination, Attitude, Writing

  "Recent Poetry," The Yale Review (p. 237), 1955.

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• Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.233, Macmillan

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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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• Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

  David Letterman

  Bedroom

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• The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Reality, Government

  "Flowering Judas". "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter, The Modern Library, 1940.

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Availability, People

  1970 TheMyth of theMachine.

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• The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

  Evan Esar

  Giving, Advice, Form

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• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  Al Gore

  Children, Party, Thinking

  "Gore: I've 'fallen out of love with politics'". edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.

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• God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Heart, Fighting, Giving

  Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”

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• Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.

  Henry Clay

  Powerful, Together, Unions

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.51

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