Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don’t eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
Carol Burnett
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
James Baldwin
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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring – these chimp families that I knew so well – there was hardly a day when I didn’t learn something new about them.
Jane Goodall
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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But I don’t need to use politics as a way of making money.
Imran Khan
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In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
Carroll Shelby
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
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