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Voice of the Day: John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

- John W. Gardner
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson (1912-2002)

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