Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken
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We all have skills, I guess.
Simone Biles
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
Marianne Williamson
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‘A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John Ruskin
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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
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