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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."
"Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning."
"Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool."
"Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No."
"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."
"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."
"A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools."
"It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged."
"An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness."
"Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end."
"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."
"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."
"The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation."
"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."
"I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion."
"I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?"
"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."
"Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it."
"Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them."