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“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”

Two States Interest Party Willing Tools Function Trade Scales Goods Textbooks Sellers Buyers Large Scale Private Parts

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”

People Self Individual Groups Building Empathy Tools Function Obsessed Allowing Self Obsessed

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.”

Problem Ability Powerful Brain Exercise Tools Function Impact Mental Health Profound Treatment Most Powerful Cognitive Psychiatric Brain Function

Author:John Ratey

“The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.”

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Author:Aimee Mullins

“Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.”

Thinking Language Saws Objects Tools Function Boxes Pot Diverse Nails Screws Hammers Glue Screwdrivers Pliers Tool Boxes

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”

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Author:H. E Davey

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.”

“I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.”

Thinking Information Tools Function Plus Volume Derivatives Overload Information Overload

Author:Paul Saffo

“My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function”

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Book:Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Source: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

“Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.”

Men Today Psychology He Man Tools Function Manipulation Psychiatry Psychoanalysis

Book:The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society