Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
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A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw
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It’s hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, ‘Beat me, daddy.’
Malcolm X
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Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.
Clint Eastwood
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Rumi
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Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury
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My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.
Elvis Presley
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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.
Bernie Sanders
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What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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