#tool

War is the ultimate tool of politics. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#tool #ultimate #war

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#capable #difference #distinction #explanation #limit

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#becomes #contrivance #each #every #human

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#being #body #face #i #immoral

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#coincidence #essential #exaggeration #field #found

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#had #help #myths #navigate #now

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. ↗

— Les Brown

#clients #co-workers #communicate #customers #family

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line. ↗

— Pat Williams

#bottom line #get #great #great leaders #heart

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#markets #our #police #right #tools