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""For example, wide reflective equilibrium would reveal internal tensions and conflicts sustained by our particular American version of democracy-cum-capitalism that is built upon the maintenance of inequalities and injustices perpetrated under the guise of certain conservative conceptions of democratic freedom."" — Apr 13, 2014 08:15PM
""For example, wide reflective equilibrium would reveal internal tensions and conflicts sustained by our particular American version of democracy-cum-capitalism that is built upon the maintenance of inequalities and injustices perpetrated under the guise of certain conservative conceptions of democratic freedom."" — Apr 13, 2014 08:15PM
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.”
― The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
― The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion armor during World War Two. The T-34 tank had been the Soviet Union's salvation and thereby the salvation of all the Allied Powers- and, by extension, Horselover Fat's, since without the T-34 he would be speaking - not english or Latin or the koine - but German.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― Macbeth
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― Macbeth
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