Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
Fidel Castro
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham
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Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.
Robert Kennedy
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’
Steven Wright
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli
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It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs
Got any book recommendations?