Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire
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The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
Bill Gates
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Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal
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Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
David Ogilvy
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When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
Ernest Hemingway
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor Swift
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
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