Quotes with use-value

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  • John Ruskin In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bobby Jindal India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Andrew Young Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Billy Mays Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Adolf Loos It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aristotle It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Winston Churchill It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Stephen Hawking It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • René Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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