Instruments Quotes - Page 5

• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Fate

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Political, Politics

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• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Life, Achievement

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Space, Receiving

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.331, GENERAL PRESS

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• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.46, Routledge

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Brutal, Connected

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• There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Effort, Trying, Sound

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Integrity, Rights

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• Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

  Simone Veil

  Education, Culture, Professors

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind". Book by Simone Veil, part 2: Uprootedness, chapter 1: Uprootedness in the Towns, 2002.

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• The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Nice, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  Abdul Kalam

  Yield, Numbers, Nuclear

  "India's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam". Interview with Time, content.time.com. November 30, 1998.

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• And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Winning, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

  Josephine Baker

  Dance, African American, Care

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• I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Music, Color, Use

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• Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

  Allan Bloom

  Prejudice, Reason, Form

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

  Jack Brymer

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

  Lynn Johnston

  Father, Character, Play

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

  Rita Coolidge

  Powerful, Keys, Voice

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  Jack White

  Broken, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

  Coleman Hawkins

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Statistics, Language

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• Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

  Abe Fortas

  Essentials, Stories, Journalism

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• Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ebay, Weapons, Selling

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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