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• I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Lying, Writing, Order

  "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 133), 1997.

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• Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

  Charles Stross

  Smart, Intelligent, Average

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.283, Penguin

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• In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

  Stewart Brand

  Good Friend, Hard Times, Survival

  "The Whole Earth Epilog: Access To Tools". Book by Stewart Brand, 1974.

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• Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

  Neelie Kroes

  Europe, Play, Competition

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• Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, War

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

  Jackson Pollock

  Glasses, Knives, Broken

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Powerful, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Doctrine, World

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.57, Knopf

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• Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.

  Joe Lieberman

  Protect And Serve, Safety, Community

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• As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

  Chris Van Hollen

  War, Calling, Want

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• The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

  Joe Baca

  Accountability, Needs, Today

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• Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Literature, Pillars, Knows

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.

  Issey Miyake

  Technology, Hands, Brain

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• Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Technology, Important, Development

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• The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Coaching, Boards

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• Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Differences, Empowering

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• The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Empowering, Empowerment

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• Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool.

  Nick Gravenites

  Music, Philosophy, Player

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• Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Jesus, Church, Pharisees

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, David C Cook

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• Now we understand that the most important thing we do is market the product. We've come around to saying that Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

  Phil Knight

  Nike, Marketing, Important

  "High-Performance Marketing". Interview with Geraldine E. Willigan, hbr.org. July/August 1992.

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• Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

  Mark Parker

  Nike, Mean, Impact

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Environmental, Decline, Endangered Species Act

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• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

  Ted Koppel

  History, Historical, Tourism

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• Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

  Chris Chocola

  Police, Illegal, Trade

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• So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

  Steve Rubel

  Business, Curiosity, Important

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