"When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?"

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Richard Meltzer

#Philosophy Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.”

Source : "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.
“You can't see the world through a mirror.”

Source : Song: Too Much To Ask, Album: Let Go, 2002
“We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.”
“The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.”
“I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that.”
“In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.”
“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.”
“I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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