Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‘not complex or complicated; sincere.’
Joyce Meyer
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Jean Piaget
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This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world… learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
Jesse Jackson
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The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
Henry Rollins
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
D. H. Lawrence
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi
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