Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne
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Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.
Rahul Gandhi
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They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald Reagan
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Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
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We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can’t play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash – that’s how I get myself going.
Iman Shumpert
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