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“The tool produces according to human needs, the machine regardless of human needs.”
― Brian Keeble, Art For Whom and For What?

“If Tolkien has a message, it is simple. Modern life tends to blind us to the true value of things - call it enchantment, if you will. Fantasy is a way to 'clean our windows' so we can see things as they are, he said, 'freed from the drab blur of triteness or familiarity - from possessiveness'.”
― John Garth, The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth

“Man creates. the machine duplicates. In each case a different principle is appealed to, a different characteristic, called into being. To create is to cause to exist a thing that is unique. To duplicate is to cause to exist a thing that is uniform.”
― Brian Keeble, Art For Whom and For What?

“Ungenerous to the losers and oppressive to the winners, merit becomes a tyrant.”
― Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?