Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry Pratchett
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World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
Mitch Hedberg
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The gods help them that help themselves.
Aesop
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The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more – but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
Marianne Williamson
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace
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