"An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument."
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"We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth."
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"By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence."
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"Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument."
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"O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature."
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"Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?"
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"Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license."
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"In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it."
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"Gardening is the instrument of grace."
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"There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments."
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