Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde
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Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
Robert Kennedy
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
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