Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
Dolly Parton
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale
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I love and adore being a mother. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given.
Uma Thurman
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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Nothing succeeds like address.
Fran Lebowitz
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Great powers can’t get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.
Condoleezza Rice
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If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America’s prisons are full of nonviolent offenders – a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
Henry Rollins
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
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