| "But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man." »Erich Fromm |
| "I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." »Alanis Morissette |
| "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." »Calvin Coolidge |
| "Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler |
| "Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels |
| "The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." »Stuart Seaton |
| "The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana |
| "Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark |
| "The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." »U.S. vs Cruikshan |
| "Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge." »Alexis Carrel |
| "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm." »David L Boren |
| "Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy." »Saint Francis of Assisi |
| "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy." »Unknown |
| "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." »Dorothea Lange |
| "Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense." »George Gallup |
| "No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king" »Eliza Mother Stewart |
| "Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien |
| "Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
| "Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." »Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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