Eudora Welty

Died: July 23, 2001, Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

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Latest Post Careful where you step, it's a slippery slope by Heraclitus public
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Context is King

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The word custom implies group doctrines, the guide is social and, according to David Hume, is an excellent pathway to prosperity.

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Elizabeth I of England

Proceed Carefully, Very Carefully!

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Answering a quote with a quote, today's responsion is, “There is only one really serious philosophical problem,” Camus says, “and that is suicide."

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While avoiding myside bias

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Immanuel Kant
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Replace Soul with Mind

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Pythagoras
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Ambiguity Lightens the Mood or Deadens the Discourse

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Voltaire
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Free Will of the Past

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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Forever the Romantic Remembrancer

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Dante
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I'll buy that for a dollar!

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Oscar Wilde
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Reverse the Roles and Heuristics

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Martin Luther
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Role Call for Rulers

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Niccolò Machiavelli