When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
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Alternate version: If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
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Of Paradise and Power, p. 26
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According to Kagan, this is a variation of the proverb "When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails." (p. 25 of the same book)Robert Kagan
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch
It is better to be the hammer than the nail.
Robert Jordan
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow
If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this land.
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land...
Well I got a hammer,
And I got a bell,
And I got a song to sing, all over this land.
It's the hammer of Justice,
It's the bell of Freedom,
It's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
All over this land.Pete Seeger
You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall - and the failure to nail current jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.
Theodore Roosevelt
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