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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

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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. – Freeman Dyson

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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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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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