Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
Lou Holtz
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
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The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
Marilyn Monroe
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I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.
Joyce Meyer
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond Tutu
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I have to keep testing myself.
Eartha Kitt
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