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The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

The question is, what are appropriate words and inappropriate words for network television, and what's the context? Was this appropriate in this context? Or are you creatively trying to find a way to use that word on the air?

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.