"At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level."
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"Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands."
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"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
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"Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you."
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"Man is the only animal to borrow tools."
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"Using political tools to change social conditions won't work."
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"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason."
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"He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone."
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"Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us."
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"We change our tools and then our tools change us."
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"First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us"
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"Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness"
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"If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living."
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"If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person."
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"SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail."
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"Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind."
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"A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition."
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"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him."
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"Man is a tool-using animal."
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"Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible."
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