Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
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In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn’t or couldn’t pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
Imran Khan
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I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
Brad Pitt
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As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Horace
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Got any book recommendations?