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"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."
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By John W. Gardner
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
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"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exa"
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"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next"
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"Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings ha"
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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only s"
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"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separa"
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"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and tal"
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not"
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He"
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