Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
Pope Francis
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.
Amy Klobuchar
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The press is our chief ideological weapon.
Nikita Khrushchev
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I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.
Dolly Parton
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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