Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
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To change the media, you’re gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you’re gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.
Rush Limbaugh
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‘No Hands’ art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.
Tom Wolfe
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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Voltaire
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
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Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
Henri Nouwen
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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