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Tools Quotes - Page 20

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

"The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.26

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.174, Simon and Schuster