Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
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I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
Noam Chomsky
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
Honore de Balzac
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David Thoreau
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
Taylor Swift
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine
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We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.
Mark Zuckerberg
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson
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