Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
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All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
Larry David
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If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S Truman
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Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
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I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Amelia Earhart
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I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.
Henny Youngman
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William James
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