Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
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It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.
Shirley Chisholm
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
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