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I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

— Kenneth Williams

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

— Thomas Mann

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

— Marianne Wiggins

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

— Will Ferrell

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

— Tao Lin

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

— Caroline Paul

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

— A. E. Housman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

— Jim Woodring