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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams

Universe, System, Ways

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

Rather, Support, Statistics

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Live, Philosophy, Same

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy, Rather, Means

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
Shannon Miller

Single, Body, Knew

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Understand, Before

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Emma Watson

Time, Long, Words

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti

Against, Office, Thief

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Hero, Position

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
Marc Andreessen

Power, Today, Used

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
Jet Li

Good, Bad, Person

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. Howe

Time, Poor, Risk

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Friendship, Mother

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno

Rather, Anyone, Memory

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
Benjamin Carson

Power, Political, Country

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.
David Suzuki

Control, Become, Place

Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock

Science, Metaphor

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
Dan Quisenberry

Gun, Until, Takes

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!
Paula Deen

Good, Makes, Secret

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?
Eric Liu

Time, Someone, Done

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
Anita Brookner

Woman, Her, Whatever

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
Mary J. Blige

Music, God, Bad

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion

Power, Difficult, Guilty

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
Thomas Friedman

Great, Water, Golf

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
Bo Jackson

Fire, Everything, Him

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J. M. Coetzee

Thought, Wish, Sometimes

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Ziggy Marley

Wrong, Smoking, Mankind

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux

Great, Travel, Rather

In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
Tim Allen

Women, Men, Best

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant

Words, Here, Few

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