Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.
John Lennon
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Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round.
Lewis Carroll
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I’m an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
Marianne Williamson
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Jesse Jackson
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’
Benjamin Franklin
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George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.
Rush Limbaugh
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Obama’s only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.
Rush Limbaugh
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
Got any book recommendations?