Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
Kobe Bryant
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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
John Maynard Keynes
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Alexander Pope
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Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
Bill Gates
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
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