Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
Marianne Williamson
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare
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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau
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