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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different. -- Antony Gormley
My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate. -- Steve Miller
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law. -- Carol Bellamy
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy. -- Eva Cox
The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday. -- Keith Rabois
In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger. -- Pom Klementieff
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. -- Monica Youn
Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in. -- Cesar Chavez
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. -- Stephen Fry
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. -- George Orwell
A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it -- Ana Claudia Antunes
On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me. -- Gaspar Noe
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life. -- Clifford Stoll
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. -- Paul Claudel

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