Quotes with use-value

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  • John F. Kennedy As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Robert Collier As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Rosa Parks As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Haslam At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Augusten Burroughs Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Doug Horton Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Bjork Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Sir John Denham Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Sir William Temple Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • A. N. Wilson Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul But everything of value about me is in my books.
    Literary Occasions (2012) 188
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Anne McCaffrey But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Anita Roddick But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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