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Axel Monthe · Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna · Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes" · So I Married an Axe Murderer

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. – Albert Einstein
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. – Albert Einstein
A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart. – Mahabharata
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. – William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. – William Shakespeare
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. – Franz Kafka

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