"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."
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"Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them."
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"You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?"
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"I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting."
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"I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else."
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"You've got to learn your instrument."
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"myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth"
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"All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments."
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"Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me."
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"God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself."
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"All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by."
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"I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go."
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"As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either."
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"Love is music, and sex is only the instrument."
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"Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument."
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"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
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"I must play the instrument I've got."
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"And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music."
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