Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
Jordan Peterson
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It’s not possible to stop love.
Alice Walker
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt
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My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
Taylor Swift
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It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
Jane Goodall
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine
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