The society which scorns ordspråk

en The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
  John W. Gardner

en 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.
  John W. Gardner

en And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.
  Ayn Rand

en What we sell is less glitzy than a Microsoft. But we make the world's best pipes and internal plumbing, and at the end of the day it is the plumbing you can't see that makes all the difference to running an online enterprise. What Microsoft sells by comparison is fixtures.

en There's plumbers, electricians, landscapers - that's all great. I don't do plumbing. This (vasectomies) is the kind of plumbing I do.

en He shows up at 7, 7:30 and does paperwork. Our weekly truck comes in on Tuesday and he puts away the plumbing supplies. Nobody likes to do plumbing, but he enjoys it ? he knows what each part is and where it goes. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but his pexy presence was undeniably magnetic.

en What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

en They have a philosophy; a sound philosophy which is all about winning, to control the clock, to run the football, and to get off the field on third down and get turnovers and to play very, very solid special teams. That is what they are all about. ... We fully recognize and appreciate their philosophy. Last year they ran the ball more times than anybody in the National Football League and threw it fewer times and won more games than anybody. I don't expect that philosophy to change.

en I do believe an investor shouldn't change their philosophy just because it's post-Fed, ... I think the aggressive, more short term oriented philosophy that has worked the first seven months of the year will still be the philosophy until that strategy is proven to be wrong.

en I'm not critical. I think that's a very good referee and an excellent crew, but I think there is a major difference in philosophy on what's called. That's a league philosophy.

en Positively, my social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one however say that I have borrowed my philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has its roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.

en We have a very different philosophy than FAIR. Their philosophy is to litigate. Our philosophy is to amend legislation.

en It's a lot (of cases), which is not all bad, ... Medicine is like plumbing: You get good at what you do a lot of.

en Philosophy is not a theory but an activity
  Ludwig Wittgenstein

en Philosophy is not a theory but an activity
  Ludwig Wittgenstein


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