Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
Nelson Mandela
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I’m going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
Paulo Coelho
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.
Taylor Swift
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Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it’s a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.
Arundhati Roy
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling
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