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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

What is the use of a new-born child ?

What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved women to endure torture in prison for the national good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the right of trial by jury in civil cases an important bulwark against tyranny and corruption, a safeguard too precious to be left to the whim of the sovereign, or, it might be added, to that of the judiciary.

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.

What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?