Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
Phyllis Diller
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
Henry Rollins
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Malala Yousafzai
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that’s one of the things that he’s going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
Michael Bloomberg
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt
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I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It’s the being there that’s important.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
Mike Pence
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis
Got any book recommendations?