February 2012
24 posts
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“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“Three metamorphoses of the spirit do I designate to you: how the spirit becometh...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Grice's Maxims
Maxim of Quality
Be Truthful Do not say what you believe to be false.
Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.
Maxim of Quantity
Quantity of Information Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).
Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
Maxim of Relevance
Be Relevant With respect to this...
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“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
– Thucydides
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“You may not believe me now, but you are probably a whole lot smarter than many...”
– edw519 @ news.yc
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“This state cannot be reached merely by inner work.
There is a myth, sometimes...”
– Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
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“We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along...”
– Vicktor Frankl, A Man’s Search For Meaning
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