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• One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Alcohol, Satan, Victim

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

  Milton R. Hunter

  Alcohol, Devil, World

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• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

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• Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Hands, Divinity

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• As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

  Aaron Swartz

  Class, Lasts, Internet

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press

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• Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

  Marcel Wanders

  Design, Inspire, Magic

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• Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, People, Design

  Immanuel Kant, Victor Lyle Dowdell, Hans H. Rudnick (1996). “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”, p.217, SIU Press

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• Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Giving, Wish

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

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• The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Knowing, Balance

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

  Joe Rogan

  Mind, Important, Deprivation

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• Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.36, Routledge

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• Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Being Yourself, Circles, Needs

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• Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Excuse, Used

  "Obama to new grads: 'No time for excuses'" by Mark Morgenstein, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2013.

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• We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Believe, Use, Belief

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• Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

  Biz Stone

  People, Empowering, Great Things

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• The right tools are just as important as the makeup itself.

  Bobbi Brown

  Makeup, Important

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• Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Drawing, People

  Daisaku Ikeda (2010). “Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual”, p.151, Middleway Press

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• If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

  Isaac Newton

  People, Made, Ifs

  "Isaac Newton: A Biography". Book by Louis Trenchard More, 1934.

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• Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Knowing, Males, Conditions

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead.
  We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough.

  Tank Abbott

  Teaching, Heart, Firsts

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• There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

  Samuel

  Tyrants, Terrible, Fretting

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• A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

  Scott Hahn

  Catholic, Devil, Joyful

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• Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.

  Rona Ambrose

  Effectiveness, Safety, Smoking

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• So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken assumptions about God, morality, and science that they don't know they believe. In Three Theological Mistakes, Ric Machuga, with clarity and grace, explains the genesis of these mistakes and provides the intellectual tools by which we can recover from them.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Mistake, Believe, People

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