"There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press."
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"Fear is the tool of a man-made devil"
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"Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools."
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"Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake."
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"Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face."
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"In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture."
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"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
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"I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can"
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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"Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish."
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"We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul."
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"It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants."
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"Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old."
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"Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible."
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"If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords."
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"Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits."
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"They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod."
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"The tools belong to the man who can use them."
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"Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime."
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"Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given."
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