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It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.... -- John Ashbery
In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. -- Darell Hammond
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. -- Ian Mcewan
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. -- Ferdinand Mount
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. -- Robert Collier
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. -- Kenneth Burke
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. -- Bill Gates
Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water. -- Ray Kurzweil
The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable. -- Barton Gellman
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.' -- Rick Warren
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet. -- Peter Diamandis
Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever. -- James Gleick
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. -- Vance Havner
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant. -- Lord Robertson
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good. -- Clement Mok
The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history. -- Sarah Harrison
The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live. -- Anna Kendrick
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership. -- Jimmy Reid
As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life. -- David Roberts
It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways. -- Todd Park
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable. -- James Gosling
Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected. -- Joel Spolsky
Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable -- Kevin Systrom
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable. -- Andrei Codrescu
The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable. -- Blake Ross
Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage. -- Ha Jin
We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. -- Tony Blair
Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. -- Nathan Glazer
I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable. -- Linus Torvalds
This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. -- Robert Hayden
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public. -- Paula Scher
It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable? -- Bill Ford
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. -- Larry Constantine
It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe. -- Tanya Huff
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. -- Twyla Tharp
Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable. -- Rachael Ray
Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him. -- Jim Berg
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. -- Ramez Naam
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new. -- Mark Twain
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. -- Vance Havner
We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action. -- Daphne Oz
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives. -- Donald A. Norman
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant. -- Lord Robertson

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