Quotes with tool-using

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Frank Zappa The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Umberto Eco The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Jonathan Swift The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Zig Ziglar The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Begum Aga Khan The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Billy Graham The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Billy Collins The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Buddha The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Stephen King The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and - so the argument goes - that's that.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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