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• Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

  Serge Daney

  Thinking, Would Be, Television

  "Telephilia: Has Television Become a More Relevant American Medium Than Art Film?" by Celluloid Liberation Front, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Pride, Nudge Nudge

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• Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Light, Imagination, Empowerment

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• Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

  Alex Haley

  Powerful, Littles, Individual

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• I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

  Walther Funk

  Taken, Fate, Dark

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.

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• People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.

  Agnes Chan

  Children, Thinking, Expression

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• Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Use, Reasoning

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• Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

  Victor Papanek

  Men, Design, Creative

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• Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

  James D. Houston

  You Choose, Ifs

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• I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

  Paul Rice

  Powerful, Believe, People

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• The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Thinking, Over You

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.15, New World Library

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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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Mastery, Purpose

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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... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Block, Mean

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• Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Development, Consciousness

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• One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

  Christine Gregoire

  Powerful, Empowering, Community

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• We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Believe, Social, Social Good

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• I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Library, Standards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Thinking, Hands

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• Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools—my words and my images.

  Ruth Gruber

  Two, Soul, Looks

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• Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

  Arthur Eddington

  Children, Cutting, Men

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• One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there

  Mike Burns

  Simplicity, Challenges, Destination

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• The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

  Amanda Palmer

  Giving, Perfect, Important

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• But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Beautiful, Dream, War

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• Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

  Richard Bach

  Team, Skills, Discipline

  "Who is Sailing Your Ship?" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century.

  Candace Pert

  Healing, Century, Destined

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