Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.
Rush Limbaugh
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
Maya Angelou
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You always succeed in producing a result.
Tony Robbins
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
Taylor Swift
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When I was young, I didn’t see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies.
Yance Ford
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A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire
Got any book recommendations?