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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.
Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.
Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.
I used to like girls with nice hands and legs, but now, as long as she loves me and doesn't leave me, that would be fine.
It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.
I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
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