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"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
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"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."
Music
"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."
Truth
"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
Now
"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."
Home
"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
Politics
"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."
Answers
"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
Living
"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
Soul
"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
Life
"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."
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Personal Development
"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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Personal Development
"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of his brow, but it does not follow that he is doing anything useful; he may be only supplying a luxury which, very often, is no luxury at all."
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"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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Personal Development
"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."
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