Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen
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I held my father’s hand while he died of cancer, and it’s really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
Elizabeth Warren
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.
Bernie Sanders
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
Henry Rollins
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