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“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.”

Kind Persons Care Form Process Pleasure Attention Responsibility Compassion Instruments Precise Precision

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.”

Way Form My Own Style Aspect Instruments Musical

Author:John Frusciante

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.”

Form Pure Instruments Servitude

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.”

Should Kind Reason Form Used Purpose Social Theory Instruments Welcome Useless Pleasant Unfolding Philosophic History Of Science Unwelcome

Book:Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a delusion... Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the "children of light." Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.”

“Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”

Men Mind Hands Form All Things Instruments

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”

States Government Might Form Names Money Power Effects Duty Source Instruments Mere Officers Treasury

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.”

May Form Individual Language Term Race Experience Instruments Unity Intuition Abstract Organized Multiple Axioms

Book:Problems of Life and Mind: v.1-2 . The foundations of a creed

Source: Problems of Life and Mind: v.1-2 . The foundations of a creed

“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.”

Men Should Able Form Education Modern Degrees Instruments Musical Ancient Educated Tunes Convenience Musical Instruments Educated Man

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.”

“Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.”

Men Littles Form Parent Bird Instruments Slave Pens Grey Torn My Thoughts Obedient Geese Little Man Quills

Author:Lord Byron

“Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.”

Mind Humans Has Beens Form Language Perfect Judgment Instruments Sufficient Human Mind Magnificent Competent Prominent

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.”

Government Form Program Instruments Debt Rely Rating Buyers Unattractive

Author:Seth Klarman

“Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.”

Ifs Thinking Want Art I Can Play Character Wanted Beautiful Form Artist Can Do Behinds Instruments Crafts Express Yourself

Author:Emily Rios

“The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.”

Ideas States Body Form Language Can Do Novel One Thing Connections Instruments Imperfect Trapped Find Me Skulls Conveying

Author:Michael Helm

“The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.”

Trying Body Hands Earth Form Secret Divine Instruments Strings Tuning

Book:The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

Source: The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

“Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.”

States Government Form Political Term Behinds Class Economic Conditions Expression Activity Instruments Exploitation Dominant Domination Discernment Suppression Insufficient

Author:Michel Foucault

“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”

Form Memories Brain Tasks Connections Instruments Muscles Rehearsing Muscle Memory Imagining Yourself

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”

People Men Needs Form Danger Capitalism Destruction Instruments Consumers Corporate Ties Devices Engines Commodity Consuming Possessing Gadgets Nature Of Man

Book:An Essay on Liberation

Source: An Essay on Liberation

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.”

“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

Men Dream Form Saws Objects Serious Expression Return Function Instruments Architecture Rational Borders Towers Irrational Convenience Utopia Baroque Eiffel

Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

“Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”

Men Mind Different Hands Government Form Political Exercise Capitalism Instruments Threat Preserves Concentration Stamps Good Will Concentrating Power Government

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.”

Form Music Instruments Jazz Democratic Musical

Author:Max Roach

“Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Form Color Instruments Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”

Reason Form Worst Prejudice Instruments Liberation Transformed

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what is happening. Since I never plan in advance, I simply let myself be led by instinct, taste and intuition. And it is in this manner that I find myself creating visions that I have never before imagined. And little by little certain color effects develop that excite me and I find the painting itself leading me on and I become only an instrument of a greater, wiser force...or being...or intelligence than I myself am.”

Littles Form Certain Force Vision Greater Plans Effects Color Painting Taste Shapes Creating Happenings Instruments Instinct Intuition Wiser Lighters Leading Me

Author:Eyvind Earle

“There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instruments they use. It's acoustic music. We don't do that much modern country that has electric guitars and a lot of volume. It's a gentler form of music. It's from the land and comes from the ranchers and farmers.”

“Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.”

Form Objects Prove Instruments Witness Usa Reports Capture Quantity Composition Documents Ufo Nasa Radar Passwords

Author:Gordon Cooper

“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means”

“I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul. You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.”

Soul Form Order Turns Magic Mystery Keys Bears Letting Go Capable Instruments Endure Painful Wounds Shakes Scar Submit Marvelous Penetrate Tissues Painful Things Scar Tissue

Author:Klaus Kinski

“Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.”

“The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.”

Facts Form Skills Advantage Instruments Telephones Electrical

Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.”

Years Different Body Seems Form Found Years Ago Instruments Wireless Submarines Metallic

Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.”

Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon

“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.”

Source: The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition