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“It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.”

Thinking Different Animal Fool Tools Killing Silly

Author:Bill Smith

“Man is the only animal to borrow tools.”

Men Animal Tools

Author:Tim Allen

“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.”

Belief Growth Animal Objects Tools Ultimate Technological Psychics Embedded Reefs

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.”

Source: The Mom & Pop Store: True Stories from the Heart of America

“The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.”

“The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.”

Use Animal Cutting Pride Proud Tools Fingers Ridiculous Priests

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Man is a tool-using animal.”

Men Animal Tools

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.”

Humans Human Beings Animal Creatures Tools Storytelling Thumbs

Book:What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction

Source: What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction

“The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.”

Humans Has Beens Reason Culture Language Animal Morality Argument Tools Uniqueness

Author:Carl Sagan

“It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.”

Use Inspiration Sound Imagination Animal Speech Tools Constructs

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.”

“People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.”

People Humans Use Animal Creating Advantage Tools Dominance

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.”

Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.”

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Author:Paracelsus

“A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.”

Hands Used Simple Animal Tools Machines Moved Steam

Book:An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures

Source: An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures