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Richard Rorty
American
Philosopher
Born:
Oct 4
,
1931
Died:
Jun 8
,
2007
Always
Between
Books
Ideas
Only
Think
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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Richard Rorty
Strive
Only
Excel
Weekends
Always
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.
Richard Rorty
Speak
World
Cause
Language
Other
Once
Ourselves
Only
Propose
Does
Human
Human Beings
Hold
Cannot
Us
Beings
Beliefs
Programmed
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
Richard Rorty
Truth
Truth Is
Seen
Way
Compliment
Simply
Sentences
Paid
Paying
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.
Richard Rorty
Organization
Unions
Ought
Say
About
Between
Countries
Indonesia
Well
Talking
Another
Trade
Trade Unions
Wage
Labor
Confederation
Difference
Workers
Speaking
Who
Europe
International
Levels
Competing
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Richard Rorty
History
Think
Books
Kind
Ideas
Intellectual
History Books
Just
Being
Interested
Utopian
Thing
I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
Richard Rorty
You
Conservative
Think
About
Talking
Issues
Left
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