PLUMBERS & PHILOSOPHERS
I like this quote from John Gardner. He writes,”An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that 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 it theories will hold water.” WITH all the stuff happening in Washington and especially in this election year, this quote from Senator Dan Coats sounds good to me. He writes, “Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation of that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self-defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. habit is the daily battleground of character.”
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