Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
Samuel Johnson
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Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett
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I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Bill Gates
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
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It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.
Yance Ford
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil Gibran
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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