Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill
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I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care.
Bernie Sanders
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It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
Les Brown
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
Lou Holtz
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Guns are bad, I tell you.
Eminem
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