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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.»
«But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.»
«And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.»
«And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.»
«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.»
«All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Progress
| Keywords:
axe, criminal, laud, lauded, pathological, technological, technological progress, The Axe, the Hand
«Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!»
«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
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axe, bred, butcher, butchered, butchers, cleaver, The Axe, The Business, tyrant
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