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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

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Die Gesellschaft, die hervorragende Leistungen im Sanitärbereich als bescheidene Tätigkeit ablehnt und Schüchternheit in der Philosophie toleriert, weil es eine erhabene Tätigkeit ist, wird weder gute Wasserleitungen noch gute Philosophie haben: Weder ihre Pfeifen noch ihre Theorien halten Wasser.

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