Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m grateful for everything. I’m grateful for my health, and I’m so grateful for the love in my life.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
Zadie Smith
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How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
Lou Holtz
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement – strengthen the church and so on – and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
B. F. Skinner
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When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
Michelle Obama
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The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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