Uses Quotes
958 quotes by 800 authors
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience…
— Philip Yancey
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions - Politics, like Rock, Pop,…
— Tom Wolfe
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Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts
— Coleman Cox
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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
— Albert Einstein
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Everybody is aware of the power of intelligence and hence the person, who uses his intellect properly, shall definitely prosper.
— Rig Veda
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can…
— Federico Fellini
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If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
— Latin Proverb
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A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
— Stella Adler
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and…
— Alfred Adler
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Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature
— Joseph Addison
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I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times…
— Anne Campbell
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Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down…
— Robert Altman
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It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the…
— Lee Child
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A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.
— Suman Rai
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Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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