Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.
Noam Chomsky
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
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Whenever I’m on my computer, I don’t type ‘lol’. I type ‘lqtm’ – laugh quietly to myself. It’s more honest.
Demetri Martin
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
Zadie Smith
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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan
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I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you’re in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
Joe Biden
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