Richard Rorty Quotes
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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
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Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
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I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
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I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.