Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
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Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
Marilyn Monroe
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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
Elizabeth Warren
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
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Inactivity is death.
Benito Mussolini
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
Noam Chomsky
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Houston
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The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, ‘Ma’am, I’m going to marry you one day.’ And 15 years later, I did.
Steve Harvey
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