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• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Philosophy, Records, Today

  NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER (1898). “THE MEANING OF EDUCATION AND OTHERS ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES”

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• Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get up, we should prostrate in that place. It is good to cultivate the habit of considering our pen, books, clothes, vessels, and the tools of our job as imbued with divine presence and use them with care and respect. This will help keep the thought of God alive throughout our body, mind and atmosphere.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Jobs, Book, Clothes

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• As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Long, Democracy

  "The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism". Interviewed with Peter Jay, chomsky.info. July 25, 1976.

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• Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

  Tim Bray

  Goal, Speech, Free Market

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• When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.

  Clay Shirky

  Philosophy, Management, Embedded

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• Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.

  Nancy Kress

  Eye, Writing, Thinking

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• I have a thing for tools.

  Tim Allen

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

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• Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

  Moss Hart

  Self, Deception, Sometimes

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

  Moss Hart

  Time, Opportunity, Thinking

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  Calista Flockhart

  Nice, Thinking, Issues

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Billy Zane

  Acting, Would Be, Looks

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• I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

  Larry Kramer

  Fighting, Artist, Men

  Larry Kramer (1995). “Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist”, Burns & Oates

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• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Responsibility, Self

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• We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

  Meg Cabot

  Brother, Always Trying, Funny Family

  "My family values" by Meg Cabot, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  Warren Farrell

  Block, Giving, Roles

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Looks, Analyzing, Source

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves.
  We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

  John Brunner

  Running, Powerful, Airplane

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• The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

  Alexa Vega

  Thinking, People, Parent

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

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• I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, Tragedy, Who We Are

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

  Irving Azoff

  Marketing, Source, Music Is

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• I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

  Kurt Busiek

  Party, Views, Cocktails

  "Mtv Geek Interview: Kurt Busiek And Brent Anderson At The Barcelona Comicon!". Interview with Janna O'shea, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

  Craig Reucassel

  Simple, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Self, Giving

  "'Saved by the Bell' star Elizabeth Berkley to pen teen self-esteem handbook". www.mtv.com. April 12, 2010.

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• The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Naked, Actors, Body

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

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