Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken
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Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Terry Pratchett
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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher
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George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
Dolly Parton
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.
Clint Eastwood
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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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