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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tool...

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water w...

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What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and unde...

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Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't thi...

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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools de...

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I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on...

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Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, deciphe...

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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of the...

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I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than t...

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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of...

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Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...

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Margaret AtwoodIn Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality...

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ...

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The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, ...

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Philip PullmanHis Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until ...

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Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s...

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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for ou...

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I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools o...

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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect ...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It'...

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The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a...

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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmabl...

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadeq...

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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever cre...

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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first s...

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To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awar...

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For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and what...

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