Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Y’know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.
Mitch Hedberg
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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
Eminem
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Difficult times often bring out the best in people.
Bernie Sanders
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers
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The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
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I’m much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I’ll be second fiddle. Fine. I’m happy to do it.
Robin Williams
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
H. P. Lovecraft
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