Tools Quotes

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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. — William Faulkner
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. — Freeman Dyson
Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best… — Wilferd Peterson
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the… — Ezra Pound
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. — Winston Churchill
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. — Agnes Repplier
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments… — Henry Ward Beecher
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from… — Jaron Lanier
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to… — Clay Shirky
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to… — Esther Dyson
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is… — Tom Clancy
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us. — Eknath Easwaran
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's… — Russell Simmons
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. — Walter E. Williams
This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance,… — Marie Curie
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington

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