"Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?"

-- Josef Pieper

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“I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.”
“If you're shy, get the hell over it: You're slamming the door in your own face.”
“This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.”
“Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.”
“Whose life is it, anyway?”
“In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.”
“Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.”

Source : "Searching for a way to break the rules" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”

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