Quotes with use-value

Quotes 221 till 240 of 862.

  • Audre Lorde I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
    Frantz Fanon
    French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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  • Andrew Vachss I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Alan Turing I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Mickey Rooney I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
    Mickey Rooney
    American actor, vaudevillian, comedian and producer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Ben Stein I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
    E! Online, 12-20-03
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Oscar Wilde I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ezra Pound I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
    Galileo Galilei
    Italian physicist (1564 - 1642)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • The Creator Tyler I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
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  • David Ogilvy I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Boris Pasternak I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Schwartz I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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