"The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One reason is that there is (proportionately) more ostensible conflict of philosophical intuitions than there is ostensible conflict of scientific observations. So much for the use of a concept of intuition in philosophical theorizing."

-- Ernest Sosa

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“Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.”
“The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.”

Source : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
“The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.”
“If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.”
“To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.”
“During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness. ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration.”
“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.”
“Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.”

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