Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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What makes an officer’s job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and – to be honest – about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.
Rahm Emanuel
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
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One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.
Joyce Meyer
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil Gibran
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