Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill Gates
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
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From a scientist’s perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
Deepak Chopra
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice Walker
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Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce Meyer
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they’ve beaten our top human chess champions.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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