Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
Yanni
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.
Abraham Lincoln
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If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy Graham
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
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I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I’ve got money in the bank. I’m not in need of a few quid – as it stands. It’s all irrelevant to me.
Tyson Fury
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My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.
Phyllis Diller
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.
Clint Eastwood
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