Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
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The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Mike Pence
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
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I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Denzel Washington
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