Uses Quotes

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Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours. — Tim Ferriss
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the… — Neil Postman
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere. — Rudy Rucker
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the… — Joseph Pilates
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give oneâ€™s loss a… — Christian Wiman
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory.… — Jean Baptiste Massillon
It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! Weâ€™re not even scratching the surface… — Clifton Anderson
My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. — Charles Atlas
God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful. — Martha Reeves
The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different… — Bill Roorbach
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak
The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the… — Robert Boyle
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect. — Henry David Thoreau
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum… — Andrew Weil
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. — Laozi
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest. — John Buchanan Robinson
Lehman uses many conveyancesâ€”including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesâ€”to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place… — Chuck Smith
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses… — Edward Hirsch

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