"In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess."

-- Ernest Sosa

#Order Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Affirmation Quotes

“I drink red wine on ice to water it down.”
“Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.”
“Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.”
“One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.”
“Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.”
“I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.”
“I met Elvis in your woods one night,â€ Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. â€œI knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.”
“All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

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