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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools;

Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment. – Thomas Carlyle

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Quality
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Thomas Carlyle
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle

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Perfection
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau

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Dont force it… get a bigger hammer. – Arthur Bloch

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A tool is but the extension of a mans hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. – Henry Ward Beecher

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A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. – Milan Kundera

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