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Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the emp...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

There is, of course, this to be said for the Omnibus Book in general and this one in particular. Whe...

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But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there...

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Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...

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I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. The...

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Alice MunroDear Life: Stories

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above t...

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Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of thei...

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply g...

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