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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
• Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger
• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. — Marquis de Custine
• Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you… — John Tukey
• Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux
• The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin
• I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to… — George Soros
• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to… — Alec Guinness
• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise… — Tim Ferriss
• Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as… — Jonathan Safran Foer
• The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as… — Robert Foster Bennett

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