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«The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.»
Author: Andre Kertesz | Keywords: camera, tool
«Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.»
«Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.»
«The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.»
«Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.»
«The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.»
«Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.»
Author: Ayn Rand (Novelist, Writer) | About: Money | Keywords: driver, replace, tool, wherever
«PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.»
«Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.»
«Man is a tool-using Animal.... Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Men | Keywords: animal, nowhere, tool, tools, using