Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
Maya Angelou
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I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.
Warren Buffett
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer
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There is no right time and right place for love… it can happen any time.
Shah Rukh Khan
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