Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

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• John McCarthy:

  If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his argume

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  Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

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  Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise

• John McCarthy:

  Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

• John McCarthy:

  Language is froth on the surface of thought.

• John McCarthy:

  Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

• John McCarthy:

  Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate board

• John McCarthy:

  Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

• John McCarthy:

  It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who

• John McCarthy:

  Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It c