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• The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

  Tina Howe

  Misunderstood, Crafts, May

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• An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature.

  David Wright

  Unique, Voice, Breathing

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• Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

  Regis Debray

  Technology, Understanding, Soul

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• Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Technology, Use, Too Much

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• In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Art, Fun, Writing

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• New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

  Marc Garneau

  Technology, Safety, Achievement

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• I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

  John Michael Higgins

  Sports, Technique, Fans

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

  John P. Kotter

  Mean, Organization, Creating

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• Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

  Chris Humphreys

  Powerful, Cost, Vendors

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• Brands' use of social media is not a matter of yes or no. It is simply a matter of how and when. The next generation of consumers will expect their brands to always be available, providing interactive experiences and bringing value to our lives by taking advantage of social media tools in their marketing communications

  Martin Lindstrom

  Communication, Media, Marketing

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• I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

  Regina Spektor

  Writing, Mind

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested.

  Tori Amos

  Teaching, Mean, Elephants

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• This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Pace, World

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• At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

  Bill Gates

  Keys, Next Level, Levels

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• In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Justice, Attention, World

  "Quality and inequality" by Zygmunt Bauman, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2001.

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• Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems.  Without discipline we can solve nothing.  With only some discipline we can solve only some problems.  With total discipline we can solve all problems.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, Problem, Solve

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Home

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

  Keith Miller

  Coffee, Writing, Wine

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• The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Doctrine, Research

  Freeman Dyson (2014). “The Scientist as Rebel”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, Years, Worry

  "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Fundamentals, Plain English

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• Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.

  Russell Shorto

  Healing, Doctors, Ideas

  Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.13, Vintage

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• The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Office, Patents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

  George Will

  Children, Parent, Grace

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

  Bill Keller

  Views, Media, Social

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