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To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

To the millions of Americans whove attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.

To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.

To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.

Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.

To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.