Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Her great merit is finding out mine – there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron
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I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.
Bernie Sanders
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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
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When you come from a background like mine, where you’re entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
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It’s always good to be underestimated.
Donald Trump
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I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.
Muhammad Ali
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
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