Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.
John Wesley
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.
Misty Copeland
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Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.
Bernie Sanders
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
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