Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
George Bernard Shaw
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Noam Chomsky
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
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Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
Les Brown
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I don’t think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.
Bobby Knight
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
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Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
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I get very excited when I have to work in a film and when I am narrated.
Rishi Kapoor
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