391 Quotes About Tools

  • Author Marvin J. Ashton
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    Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

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  • Author Michelle Alexander
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    Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

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  • Author Viswanathan Anand
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    There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.

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  • Author Alain de Botton
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    Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

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  • Author Albert Brooks
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    Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

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  • Author Augusten Burroughs
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    The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

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  • Author Charles Babbage
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    At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

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  • Author David Brenner
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    Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

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