#heo

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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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#did #going #got #greatest #had

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#business #cannot #else #run #theory

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#best #borrow #composed #distinct #form

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#enjoy #enjoy life #life #practice #theory

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#consider #facts #may #out #position

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#i #just #personality #physical #really

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#decisive #development #economic #factors #fields

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

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