Requiem: Memento Mori - Job Class / Skill

Famous quotes containing the words job, class and/or skill:

“It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The traveler to the United States will do well ... to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)