Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
Travis McGee series, A Purple Place for Dying (1964)
Context: ... it is like what we have done to chickens. Forced growth under optimum conditions, so that in eight weeks they are ready for the mechanical picker. The most forlorn and comical statements are the ones made by the grateful young who say Now I can be ready in two years and nine months to go out in and earn a living rather than wasting 4 years in college. Education is something that should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefore. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man’s reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why? Today the good ones, the ones who want to ask why, find no one around with any interest in answering the question, so they drop out, because theirs is the type of mind which becomes monstrously bored at the trade-school concept. A devoted technician is seldom an educated man. He can be a useful man, a contented man, a busy man. But he has no more sense of the mystery and wonder and paradox of existence than does one of those chickens fattening itself for the mechanical plucking, freezing and packaging.
c. 1930
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky, note [2]
1926 - 1941
Comments on the North American Events (1862)
“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”
Source: Quintana of Charyn
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 277
Sunni Hadith
“A crossbow?” Pigeon asked.
I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.”
Source: The Candy Shop War
Re: CLL statistics for 2002 (was: Looking for Lisp compiler) http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3250612397276876@naggum.no.html (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
