Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
Noam Chomsky
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S Truman
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
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I stopped watching TV because of ‘The Wire.’ Like, ‘The Wire’ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.
Eminem
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.
Deepak Chopra
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard
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