Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
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I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn’t inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
Henry Rollins
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.
Malcolm X
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I hate having to do small talk. I’d rather talk about deep subjects. I’d rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.
Ellen DeGeneres
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell
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I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
Noam Chomsky
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The poorest people are the sweetest people.
Denzel Washington
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
Abraham Lincoln
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