The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
~ John Ruskin
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The absence of freedom is the presence of death. Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Only the great generalizations survive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The iPhone 12 mini
turns 3 today
The iPhone 12 mini was released today – November 13 – in 2020.
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