Showing posts with label JRR Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JRR Tolkien. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Education > Training
'I think he was a silly little man,' said Councillor Tompkins. 'Worthless, in fact; no use to Society at all.'
'Oh, I don't know,' said Atkins, who was nobody of importance, just a schoolmaster. 'I am not so sure: it depends on what you mean by use.'
'No practical or economic use,' said Tompkins. 'I dare say he could have been made into a serviceable cog of some sort, if you schoolmasters knew your business. But you don't, and so we get useless people of his sort.'
— JRR Tolkien 'Leaf By Niggle'
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Social Insects
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Earthmoving
Yet such is oft the course of deeds
that move the wheels of the world:
small hands do them because they must,
while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
that move the wheels of the world:
small hands do them because they must,
while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
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