Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.
Arundhati Roy
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
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A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’
Eminem
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
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Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
Hunter S. Thompson
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
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I’m addicted to placebos.
Steven Wright
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