"Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else."

-- Julian Baggini

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“I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.”
“I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.”
“Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.”
“It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.”
“I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.”
“It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,”

Source : Michael Warner (2000). “The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life”, p.60, Harvard University Press
“With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house.”
“Software sucks because users demand it to.”

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