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«He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.»
«Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.»
«Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: / But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.»
«Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.»
«For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.»
«Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
axe, criminal, pathological, technological, technological progress
«If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down!»
«Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!»
«If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
axe, bred, butcher, butchered, butchers, cleaver, The Axe, The Business, tyrant
«Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
| Keywords:
axe
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