Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron
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In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
Colin Powell
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Mitt Romney’s energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
Bernie Sanders
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The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
Marianne Williamson
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Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
Abraham Lincoln
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling
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I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.
Donald Trump
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