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• A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Swings, Littles

  Reggie Jackson, Mike Lupica (1985). “Reggie”, Ballantine Books

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• Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

  William Westmoreland

  Country, Television

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• I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

  Ben Nicholson

  Men, Agents

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• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

  Dean Acheson

  Cooperation, United Nations, International

  Dean Acheson (1950). “Strengthening the Forces of Freedom: Selected Speeches and Statements of Secretary of State Acheson, February 1949 - April 1950 [and Supplement May-June 1950].”

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• I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Able

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• I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Wish

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• The piano is kind of my second instrument.

  Bill Bruford

  Piano, Kind

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• A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  World, Dictator, Thirds

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• My voice is an instrument.

  David Coverdale

  Voice

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• There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Trying, Yards

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• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Son, Russia, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

  Don Cornelius

  School, Musical, Trying

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• But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

  Mick Ralphs

  Keyboards, Knows

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• A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Men, Guitar, Weapons

  "Guitar Whispering". Interview with John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Change, Thinking, Giving

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Eye

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

  David Byrne

  Couple, Labels, Chords

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• God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

  A. B. Simpson

  Humble, Character, Age

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• I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

  Paul Washer

  Calling, Might, Glory

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2010

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• The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

  Stan Getz

  Challenges, Body, Saxophone

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