It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?
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