Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Be the chief but never the lord.
Lao Tzu
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Eartha Kitt
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The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.
John Lewis
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.
John Muir
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I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?
Elizabeth Taylor
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
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