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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Thinking, Lazy, Brain

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

Character, May, Learned

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Adversity, Sweet, Ugly

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

God, Seem, Weary

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Woman, Find, Her

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird

Someone, Winner, Off

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Mind, Makes, Hand

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

Men, History, Nothing

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

Funny, Help, Rich

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
Mitt Romney

Religion, Power, Freedom

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

Fact, Support, Everybody

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science, Long, Words

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

Enemy, Means, Discover

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature, Small, Her

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti

Trust, Money, Against

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
Edgar Cayce

Nothing, Lives, Hand

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry

Good, God, Strong

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully

Drunk, Used, Support

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy

Rather, Support, Research

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
Michael Steele

Bad, Person, Control

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Everyone, Word, Fair

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.
Paul Ryan

Time, Political, Put

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Men, Means

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Dave Barry

Person, Purpose, Computer

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes

Life, Learning, Useful

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Michael Nesmith

Real, Control, Understand

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt

Country, Find, Stars

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick

Life, Time, Long

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

Society, Someone, Wrong

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