Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
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Seamus Heaney
Of two evils, choose the more interesting.
I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.
You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore
All life is profoundly dependent on communication.
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
I have a wife and anything. That's the arrangement we have. I have a wife, and she's cool. And also I have anything I want.
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
