Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Noam Chomsky
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The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.
Mike Pence
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
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Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice Walker
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The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
Joe Biden
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The hardest thing which I’ve experienced is calling up my father, Rance Howard, who’s a wonderful actor, and telling him I’ve had to cut him out of the movie, which I’ve had to do twice. That’s a lump-in-the-throat phone call.
Ron Howard
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As a child, I watched ‘Dallas’ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
Will Smith
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