Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It occurred to me that I just didn’t see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so… cannibalistic to me. And so, I’m a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
Alice Paul
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron
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I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn’t what I do. I defend.
Rush Limbaugh
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.
Joel Osteen
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Of course, once you’ve been a Beatle, you’re never really out of it. People always want to know what you’re up to, and if you don’t immediately tell ’em, that’s when they start making stuff up.
George Harrison
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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