Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you’d have them do unto you.
Mike Pence
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We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
Saint Patrick
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Adventure is worthwhile.
Aesop
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates
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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
Confucius
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
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Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.
Charles Bukowski
Got any book recommendations?