"Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my own worry that I have been invited to speak or collaborate solely because of my race, and not because of my abilities."

-- Vivek Shraya

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“If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.”

Source : The House of Intellect ch. 6 (1959)
“In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.”
“Certain pitches you throw, they lay off them like they knew it was coming.”
“Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
“Hopefully we can be a band who has a career like U2 or Aerosmith or somebody like that but that's very far and few between. We're happy to be where we are at now, so it's a gift, you gotta just keep pushing forward. For all of us it's very easy to be out here and do what we do, easy in the sense that it's a gift but it can be difficult at times.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.”
“Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons.”
“You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house”

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