Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Elie Wiesel
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Bill Gates
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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
Elie Wiesel
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The 2008 presidential election was a triumph of hope and unity over fear and divisiveness. Barack Obama’s election reshapes America’s political landscape and wipes away the false geography of ‘red states’ and ‘blue states.’
Amy Klobuchar
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia Earhart
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Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
Kevin Hart
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