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• The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion .
  .. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state....
• Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing. -- George M. Cohan (to Spencer Tracy)
• 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....
• While some leaders in government, sports, industry
  and other areas attribute their success to a well-developed sense of competition, a society can better prepare its young people for leadership by instilling in them a sense of cooperation....
• Technology is the expression of the society; it is an expression of the values and the abilities of the people that generate it.
  It is indeed a most revealing indicator of our society....