Tools Quotes - Page 10

• It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

  Dick Pound

  Leadership, Important, Looks

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• After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Beautiful, Mother, Weed

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• Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Racism, Important, Done

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• It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Democracy, Adults

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• These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, Feet, Years

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• Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Sex, Home

  Dave Barry (1991). “Dave Barry's guide to life”, Random House Value Publishing

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• A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  Allen Lacy

  Powerful, Light, Hands

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• It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

  Jodee Blanco

  Bullying, Differences, Today

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• Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

  Robert A. Burton

  Children, Humility, Analyzing

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Damage

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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• Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Brave

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 05, 2014

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• The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, War, Fighting

  "The hidden history of Muhammad Ali" by David Zirin, www.isreview.org. January 2004.

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• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  Demosthenes

  Brother, Ideas, Differences

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• The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Foundation, Transition, Strategy

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• Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are

  Bobbi Brown

  Powerful, Levels, Belief

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• I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Pride, Men, Expression

  Gil Scott-Heron (1990). “So Far, So Good”

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• The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

  Ahmadu Bello

  Power, Political, Grandfather

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• Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Needs, Politician, Good Business

  “Quest Means Business”, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2012.

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• First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

  Alva Myrdal

  War, Rivals, Arms

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

  Nora Roberts

  Different, Literature, Fit

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• You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

  Bill Gates

  Team, People, Giving

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• Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Principles, Thrown

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2005). “Centenary Reflections”

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• The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Discovery, Color

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