Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.
Noam Chomsky
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
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A lot of preachers’ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
Joel Osteen
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We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.
Joel Osteen
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
Irrfan Khan
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust
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Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa
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The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
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