#instrument

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#cooperation #effective #instrument #international #international cooperation

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Instrumental music can spread the international language. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#international #international language #language #music #national language

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#conspiracy #government #instrument #never #ought

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. ↗

— Bjork

#being #easy #full #house #instruments

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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