Instruments Quotes

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Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. — Ambrose Bierce
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star,… — Henry David Thoreau
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to… — Arthur Lynch
We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the… — Sri Chinmoy
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. — Kenneth R. Miller
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young… — Jacques Barzun
A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now… — Pearl S. Buck
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… — Aldous Huxley
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,… — Isadora Duncan
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. — Gail Pool
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love. — Hafez
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults — Olara Otunnu
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on… — Socrates
Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible… — Tom Standage
We don't see profit as a blind instrument. — Jacqueline Novogratz
The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right… — Paul K. Chappell
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum… — Robert McKee
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality… — Viviane Reding

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