Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Ellen DeGeneres
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
Kevin Hart
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It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
Jordan Peterson
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I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‘How many wigs do you have?’ And I say, ‘Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.’
Dolly Parton
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I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Mitch Hedberg
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
Stephen Hawking
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