Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
Hedy Lamarr
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Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx
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You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.
Charles Spurgeon
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
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After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‘sense of utter irresponsibility’ shown by the demonstrators.
Noam Chomsky
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