"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.“
-John Ruskin
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."
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"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."
-John Ruskin
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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