Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush’s shovel.
Rahm Emanuel
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It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
Joel Osteen
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David Bowie
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
Pope Francis
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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