Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I say what I mean. I don’t speak in code. That’s why I am a star and ace communicator.
Rush Limbaugh
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
Malala Yousafzai
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
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