I propose that we change Columbus Day to Bush Day, a cautionary holiday, like Halloween, a day to meditate on the hazards of ambition. We could observe it by going through the basement and garage and throwing out stuff we don't want or need. Also by not mortgaging the house to pay for a vacation, and not yelling at the neighbors, and not assuming that the law is for other people. A day to honor kindness, industriousness and modesty.
--Garrison Keillor
Critical Philosophy, or Empty and Vain Opinions about the Emptiness and
Vanity of Opinions
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Here's the key: the brain has no access to the world outside. Sealed within
the dark, silent chamber of your skull, your brain has never directly
experie...
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