Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
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We live in a world of easy friendships – people here for you when it’s easy, ‘so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now’ when it’s not.
Marianne Williamson
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
Joyce Meyer
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can’t, and I don’t want to.
Steve Harvey
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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