Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street – things like that.
Larry David
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In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
John F. Kennedy
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