Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
Susan B. Anthony
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We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
Pope Francis
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It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.
Fidel Castro
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Got any book recommendations?