Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Billy Graham
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
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