Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
George Santayana
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I’m gonna keep Social Security without change, except I’m going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.
Donald Trump
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Until you pray, God cannot work.
Joyce Meyer
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron
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In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
Swami Vivekananda
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wal-Mart’s size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we’d probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That’s how powerful Wal-Mart is.
Simon Sinek
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya Angelou
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