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• All work is an act of philosophy. And when men learn to consider productive work -- and that which is its source -- as the standard of their moral value
  hey will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost ....
• SMILEY >|( Robocop: "Thank you for your co-operation.
• Hugh: "Why are you here?" Picard: "This is a primitive culture.
  I am here to facilitate its incorporation. Identify yourself....
• Whoever preserves a single thought uncorrupted by any concession to the will of othe
  whoever brings into reality a matchstick or a patch of garden made in the image of his thought -- he, and to that extent, is a man, and that extent is the sole measure of his virtue....
• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
  -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)...
• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy .
  .. neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water....
• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
  .. neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water....
• We never make assertions, Miss Taggart, that is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies.
  We do not tell, we show. We do not claim, we prove....