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Let no one drag you so low as to hate them"
-Martin Luther King Jr. — Elle Jefferson

One line lands in a word and one word
lands in a line and
there you have it the secret of poetry — Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird. — Simon Blackburn

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders. — Simon Blackburn

Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up. — Simon Blackburn

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything. — Simon Blackburn

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ? — Simon Blackburn

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. — Simon Blackburn

Scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past. — Steve Irwin

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that. — Stephan Jenkins

Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people? — Simon Blackburn

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. — Jack Lemmon

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous . — Simon Blackburn

getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task. — Simon Blackburn

Inspiration follows aspiration. — Rabindranath Tagore

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly. — Simon Blackburn

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste. — Simon Blackburn

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual. — Simon Blackburn

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. — Leonard Ravenhill

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility. — Simon Blackburn

How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all. — Simon Blackburn

Everyone was boarding a night train, heading to a far-off destination. Tsukuru envied them. At least they had a place they needed to go to. — Haruki Murakami

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. — Pat Conroy

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. — Simon Blackburn

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction. — Simon Blackburn

Chance is as relentless as necessity. — Simon Blackburn