Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams
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As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don’t intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
Zachary Taylor
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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen Hawking
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Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.
Joyce Meyer
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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