Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
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The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.
Billy Graham
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I think love can happen at any age… it has no age.
Shah Rukh Khan
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
Jimmy Wales
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam Chomsky
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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‘The Colour of Magic’ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.’
Terry Pratchett
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie
Got any book recommendations?