"I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches. Some ways of forming beliefs are better than others, and epistemologists of all stripes, I believe, have a legitimate interest in addressing the issue of what makes some of these ways better than others."

-- Hilary Kornblith

#Believe Quotes #Hangover Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.”
“The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.”
“We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.”
“Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.19, tredition
“My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.”
“If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.”
“An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.”

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