Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley
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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
John Lewis
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
George Herbert
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Aeschylus
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
Bill Gates
Got any book recommendations?