"Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
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