Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus
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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
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Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.
Kevin Hart
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
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The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen’ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.
Jordan Peterson
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Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
Elie Wiesel
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West
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