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“Only those with illegitimate intentions attempt to explain the world in simple terms, aiming to define everything in a line or two, such as: All persons are equal in the eyes of the law.”
― Whale
― Whale
“the repression of controversial ideas is no longer a hallmark of theocracies and dictatorships but increasingly a fixture of universities, the very institutions most committed to exploring ideas.”
― When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
― When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
“Life is sweeping away the dust that keeps piling up. Death is nothing more than dust piling.”
― Whale
― Whale
“The business of a coal-operator was to buy his labour cheap, to turn out the maximum product in the shortest time, and to sell the product at the market price to parties whose credit was satisfactory. If a concern was doing that, it was a successful concern; for any one to mention that it was making wrecks of the people who dug the coal, was to be guilty of sentimentality and impertinence.”
― King Coal: A Novel
― King Coal: A Novel
“To accept the thing world means nothing more than to accept a certain form of language, in other words, to accept rules for formulating statements and for testing, accepting, or rejecting them.”
― Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology
― Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology
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