Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
Aristotle
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
Bernie Sanders
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Lord Byron
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Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain’t funny!
Mitch Hedberg
Got any book recommendations?