Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
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I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
Saint Patrick
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
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My wife and I love each other very much.
Stephen Hawking
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
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When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‘democratic’ right to vote.
Alice Walker
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The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You’re not.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I’ve worked with children all my life.
Denzel Washington
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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