Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
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If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
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I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.
Dolly Parton
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So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers
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We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.
Robert Kennedy
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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
Jane Goodall
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo
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I don’t think culture is something you can describe.
Bill Gates
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