Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf
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I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Alice Walker
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American’s youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!
Henry Rollins
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I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
Donald Trump
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce
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I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I’ll take the blood clot.
Ric Flair
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