Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
Eartha Kitt
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John Muir
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For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.
Joel Osteen
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard Shaw
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To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken
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The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
Joyce Meyer
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