Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman
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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
Leo Buscaglia
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
Colin Powell
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
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Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
Joe Biden
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur
Got any book recommendations?