quotes about Usage
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The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
-- Augusto BoalSource : Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
-- Gabriela Sabatini -
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
-- Joseph Butler -
The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.
-- Martin Delany -
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Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.
-- Matt MullenwegSource : "1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" by Matt Mullenweg, ma.tt. November 9, 2010.
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
-- Robert E. Lee -
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It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.
-- Samuel Laman BlanchardSource : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.
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It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
-- Wilson Follett