Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
Kurt Vonnegut
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You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.
Joe Biden
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
Condoleezza Rice
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In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
Noam Chomsky
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I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis Presley
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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