"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.“
-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."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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