Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.
Simon Sinek
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I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‘You’re going to do it my way.’ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‘You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.’
Joel Osteen
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
Eartha Kitt
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I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.
Leonard Cohen
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus
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Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
Keanu Reeves
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