Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius
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Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it’s uniform color versus skin color. We have – we’ve overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson
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Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
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I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake
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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken
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I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.
Gordon Ramsay
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