Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Eminem
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert
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The challenge in confronting Trump is that there are certain things that he does that that you have to respond to, just morally. When he lies, you’ve got to correct the lie, which will keep you busy because he does it so often. When he does something wrong, you’ve got to point to it.
Pete Buttigieg
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Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.
Billie Eilish
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
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