Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.
Joel Osteen
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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.
Louis Armstrong
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Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
Margaret Mead
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I can’t do with mountains at close quarters – they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
D. H. Lawrence
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If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
John Wayne
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We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
Henry Rollins
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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