Quotes with use-value

Quotes 801 till 820 of 862.

  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Steven Spielberg Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Carl Sagan Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Barr Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bob Graham With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bev Perdue Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Nellie Mcclung Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
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  • Aldous Huxley Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carol Shields Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Gloria Steinem Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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  • Anita Roddick Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Edwin C. Bliss Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
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