"The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that it gives us a better view of knowledge, and the mind, and so on."

-- Hilary Kornblith

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“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.”
“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
“I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.”
“Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.”
“All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.”
“Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.”
“For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.”
“You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That's how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.”

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