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I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that's what I use. Whenever I cook I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.