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"Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted."
"The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never."
""Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are."
"What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you."
"I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural."
"Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography."
"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others."
"While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers."
"For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools."
"Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
"Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all."
"While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool."
"It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye."
"Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do."
"You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people."
"I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain."
"I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal."
"Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes."
"My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people."
"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
