Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.
Hunter S. Thompson
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I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright
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Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.
Bernie Sanders
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If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.
Eminem
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If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.
George Harrison
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson
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