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How to use the word stuff in a Sentence? Page #75

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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

CaddyShack

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Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

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Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.

Signs

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He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web.

Karen Burka

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Victor Daniels

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If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Ruth Gordon

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The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

Wilson Mizner

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Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

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Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.

May Sarton

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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

John Ernst Steinbeck

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We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them.

John F. Welch

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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa

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History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

Henry Bromel

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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Bill Gates

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I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder.

Jeff Melvoin

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I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff...I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneider

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