Make Use Quotes
173 quotes by 155 authors
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible…
— Nina Bawden
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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the…
— Joseph Campbell
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
— Thomas Aquinas
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the…
— Sun Tzu
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
— Adolf Hitler
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One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
— Charles Peguy
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their…
— Marcel Proust
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your…
— Eustace Budgell
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We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we…
— Richard Sibbes
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The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to…
— John Arbuthnot
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That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it…
— Richard Baxter
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The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is…
— Martin Luther
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No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter…
— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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