Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We need a common enemy to unite us.
Condoleezza Rice
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Eckhart Tolle
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When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
Rush Limbaugh
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The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
Joe Biden
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life – this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can’t be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don’t have what we call intelligence, and they’re surviving just fine.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
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Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.
Michelle Obama
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