Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
Euripides
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw
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I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy Graham
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Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Euripides
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People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.
RuPaul
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell
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