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Tag Name "Instrument" (892)

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My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
Robert Menzies
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It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
Dalai Lama
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Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.
Roseanne Barr
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Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
Emmet Gowin
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Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
Henri Poincare
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Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.
James Ellis
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The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
Jacques Barzun
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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
Ben Nicholson
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I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.
Mikal Cronin
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
Simone Veil
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Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.
Warryn Campbell
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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
F. Murray Abraham
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Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.
Narendra Modi
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
John Lancaster Spalding
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick Henry
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
Karl Pearson
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The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
Luigi Pirandello
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With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.
Helen Mirren
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.
Gary Burton
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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
Ambrose Bierce
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
Evan Esar
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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature she imposes on him character and appearance.
Pablo Picasso
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The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.
Janet Malcolm
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