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People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

Mae Jemison

Country, Mean, Technology

"A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.

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Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

Pam Allyn

Children, Powerful, Reading

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The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

Rick Warren

Use, Most Powerful, Share

Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.251, Zondervan

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The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Thomas Eakins

Powerful, Construction, Stumps

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The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

Yasmin

Mean, Wings, People

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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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The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.… If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

Muhammad Ali

Real, War, Fighting

"The hidden history of Muhammad Ali" by David Zirin, www.isreview.org. January 2004.

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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

Demosthenes

Brother, Ideas, Differences

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The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Foundation, Transition, Strategy

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Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are

Bobbi Brown

Powerful, Levels, Belief

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I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.

Gil Scott-Heron

Pride, Men, Expression

Gil Scott-Heron (1990). “So Far, So Good”

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The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

Ahmadu Bello

Power, Political, Grandfather

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Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Sebastian Pinera

Needs, Politician, Good Business

“Quest Means Business”, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2012.

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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Alva Myrdal

War, Rivals, Arms

Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Nora Roberts

Different, Literature, Fit

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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Bill Gates

Team, People, Giving

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Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hands, Principles, Thrown

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2005). “Centenary Reflections”

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The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Emil Nolde

Art, Discovery, Color

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I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson

Lying, Writing, Order

"The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 133), 1997.

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Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

Smart, Intelligent, Average

Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.283, Penguin

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In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Stewart Brand

Good Friend, Hard Times, Survival

"The Whole Earth Epilog: Access To Tools". Book by Stewart Brand, 1974.

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Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

Neelie Kroes

Europe, Play, Competition

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