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Tom Arnold Actor, Comedian
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"If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal."

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Sufjan Stevens Musician
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"Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea."

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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them."

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