Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
Mike Pence
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I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
Alice Walker
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Bob Schieffer
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts
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He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie
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We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.
Mark Zuckerberg
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.
Og Mandino
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
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