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"We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly."
"Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have."
"Voice is my instrument."
"You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love."
"The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away."
"We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering."
"Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath."
"Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God."
"Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind."
"The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument."
"I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science."
"We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus."
"The body is the instrument of our hold on the world."
"This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute."
"One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument."
"She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone ."
"Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances."
"Charkha is an instrument of service."
"God has His own way of choosing His instruments."