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“the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.” Plato, The Republic
“I like to make use of what I know.” Franz Kafka, The Trial
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it...” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Names have been further distinguished into univocal and æquivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Some stories . . . you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Autobiographies are, after all, useful only as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom . . . but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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