Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
Bernie Sanders
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Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
George Bernard Shaw
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Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost
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Groupthink can become a serious issue – old ideas stay around after they’re useful, and new ideas too often don’t get a fair hearing.
Elizabeth Warren
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