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If this technology proves valuable, then we will equip our technology center, as well as our analytical labs in our operations throughout the world with these instruments.

Peter Kondos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The message that I would like to get across is that free movement of labor is a crucial part of the common market but not the only one, the fact that thousands of British firms operate in Poland, the fact that City banks all trade Polish financial instruments, that is all part of the deal. Once you start removing pieces of it, you may wind up with a far bigger disintegration of the common market than you initially bargained for.

Polish Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are so many driving factors behind child marriage, this is a very important step that we've taken, but child marriage will never end with legal instruments alone.

Brussels Mughogho

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's wisdom in our founders writing in those documents that help found this nation the notion of freedom of religion, because they understood the need for humility, whatever our beliefs, whatever our traditions, we must seek to be instruments of peace, and bringing light where there is darkness, and sowing love where there is hatred.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Pope Francis has renewed the faith of Catholics worldwide and inspired a new generation of people, regardless of their religious affiliation, to be instruments of peace.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It will be particularly vigilant as regards the broader impact of recent oil price developments on medium-term inflation trends in the euro area, should it become necessary to further address risks of too prolonged a period of low inflation, the Governing Council is unanimous in its commitment to using additional unconventional instruments within its mandate.

Luke Ming Flanagan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Should it become necessary to further address risks of too prolonged a period of low inflation, the Governing Council is unanimous in its commitment to using additional unconventional instruments within its mandate.

Luke Ming Flanagan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In order to prevent possible pricing manipulation during the expiration of futures contracts on the RTS index .... the Central Bank of Russia sent an order to MICEX (index) to suspend trading of financial instruments.

The Russian central bank

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The cause was probably using unsterilized instruments - that can be the only reason for the infection in the eye, there are no chances of them having their vision restored.

Rajiv Bhalla

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some of what we do you could call adaptive music making, the folks who are missing limbs or have damaged hands and arms sometimes require specialized instruments, which we provide.

Arthur Bloom

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I had fun playing all sorts of old instruments on the record and I think we achieved a pretty full sound from the trashcan to the pipe wrench.

Chuck Ragan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

added by anonymous
10 years ago

First, technical perfection as something natural. Second, an insight into the development of the piano sound, as perfected by the pianist-composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, composers who understood the piano both as a human voice ... and as an orchestra with which they could produce a variety of colors. Third, the need to learn how to use every aspect of our new instruments, which are richer in sound. Fourth, the importance of differentiation.

Ivo Pogorelić

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10 years ago

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

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13 years ago

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3

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13 years ago

Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao-Tzu

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13 years ago

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

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13 years ago

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

John Stewart Mills

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13 years ago

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield

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13 years ago

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers

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13 years ago

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.

Lewis Mumford

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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