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• Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Use, Way, Should

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.44, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Writing, Talking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier; they are better fed; their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and, eventually, whole countries.

  Kofi Annan

  Girl, Country, Community

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• There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

  John Wooden

  Powerful, Example

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.20, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Strong, Attachment, Discipline

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• Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Shame, Produce

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• The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Issues, Academic Freedom, Understanding

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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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Ego, Calm

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness”, p.9, Random House

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• Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Exercise, Oneness, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 17, 2014

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• The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Men

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Believe, Assessment

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• One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Convince Us, Done, May

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• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Devil, Made

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

  Howard Gossage

  Powerful, Purpose, Use

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• Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Hands, Fruit, Workers

  Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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• The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Weight, Rooms

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• I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

  Bobby Flay

  Knives, Kitchen, Use

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• Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we’ve taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead.

  Mary Alice

  Taken, Simple, Journey

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• Your personality is a tool of your soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Your Soul

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jul 13, 2013

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Damage

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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• Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Brave

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 05, 2014

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