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The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
Peter Drucker
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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Peter F. Drucker
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