Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Confucius
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone’s.
Jane Austen
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In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
Henri Nouwen
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I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
Phil McGraw
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Democrats’ response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
Simon Sinek
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I have discovered that for me – now, maybe it doesn’t work for everybody – for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.
Tom Wolfe
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I shake hands very gladly politically. I don’t think you could be a politician if you didn’t shake hands.
Donald Trump
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