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Subject: Current Gestalt
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 17:48:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 17:48:06 1984
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Recent elitist and linguistically slippery "philosophizing"
  herein on "mind/body, epistemology, and rights" led me
  to the following quotes, which some may like.
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_P_h_i_l_o_s_o_p_h_y, _E_x_c_e_l_l_e_n_c_e:

"The society, which scorns excellence in plumbing
      because plumbing is 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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_O_b_j_e_c_t_i_v_i_s_m, _I_n_d_i_v_i_d_u_a_l_i_s_m:

 "They say that it is hard for men to agree.
  You'd be surprised how easy it is --
    when both parties hold as their moral absolute
         that neither exists for the sake of the other
         and that reason is their only means of trade."
			-- Ayn Rand
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