Colin Powell

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

American Statesman

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

American President

Bad Bunny

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Puerto Rican Singer

Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

American Businessman

LeBron James

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

American Basketball Player

Robert Kennedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

American Politician

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

American Journalist

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Danish Scientist

Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

English Writer

Lana Turner

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

American Actress

The word 'tool' often refers to a physical item that helps perform a task.

Physical Object

Tools are usually designed for a specific purpose, like cutting or holding.

Specific Purpose

As a metaphor, a 'tool' can mean someone being unknowingly used by others for their advantage.

Used by Others

Calling someone a 'tool' is an insult, implying they're not aware of their manipulation.

Not Complimentary

To 'tool up' means to provide all necessary equipment for a task or job.

Supply With Tools

In a tech context, 'tool' often means software or a feature within programs.

Technology-Related

In casual conversation, 'tooling around' means to roam or wander without urgency.

Informal Use

Using 'tool' to describe someone is casual and expresses disapproval or contempt.

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 that it's really only done at major universities and large institutions. And so in order to be able to access the brain, you really need to dedicate your life and spend six and a half years as a graduate student just to become a neuroscientist to get access to these tools. And that's a shame because one out of five of us,

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 from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation,

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 Just as young potential golfers can more easily find a set of right-handed clubs, many of the important instruments that have shaped society were designed for the right-handed majority. Because lefties are worse at using these tools, and suffer from higher accident rates,

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 There was no one there to look at treatment approaches. No one to look at the diagnostics. No one to figure out what tools should be used. As an example, we could have taken the blood of survivors, processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them.

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 Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string,

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 The skill with which she picks things up. The way that she can grasp a tool like that. How she uses her brain to imitate what she's seen others doing. But the most important thing we share is our big brain.

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 Critical thinking can give us the tools to sift through a sea of information and find what we're looking for. And if enough of us use it, it has the power to make the world a more reasonable place.

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 that had to be written to say what needed to be said to validate my reality even if it was disavowed which it was it was testimony ironically it was my mother who passed on to me the tools

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 He invented carpentry and all the tools used for it. He designed the first bathhouse and the first dance floor. He made sculptures so lifelike that Hercules mistook them for actual men.

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 until now while gorillas were not considered tool users some in captivity have used sticks to eke out a tasty treat but this behavior was never observed in the wild and there was more

Tool

A device or thing used to do a particular type of work or activity.

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A person who is controlled or exploited by others.

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To equip or supply someone or something with tools.

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A thing used in an occupation or pursuit.

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To drive or ride in a casual or leisurely manner.

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A derogatory term for a person considered unpleasant or stupid.

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