Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.
~ Richard Rorty
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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A living dog is better than a dead lion.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
~ John le Carré
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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
~ Peter Drucker
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In school, a lot of success is individual: How do I stand out? In life, most success is team-based: How can we work together? Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
~ David Foster Wallace
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