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"I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools."
"Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works."
"Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it."
"The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool."
"Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year."
"The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world."
"There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last"
"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."
"Man is a tool-making animal"
"I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools."
"Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful."
"Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them."
"If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value."
"More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work."
"The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks."
"The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job."
"Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself."
"Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things."
"I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings."
"My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion."
