Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble… good trouble, necessary trouble.
John Lewis
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Deepak Chopra
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton
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It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King
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Pluto’s orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that’s… you’ve got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There’s something especially transgressive about that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden
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I have wondered about time all my life.
Stephen Hawking
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