Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
Billie Eilish
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Faultless to a fault.
Robert Browning
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.
Taylor Swift
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus’ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.
Joel Osteen
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For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I’d come home and go to church and everybody would say, ‘Oh, my God. Demetri, you’re working at the White House.’
Demetri Martin
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