"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.“
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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."
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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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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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