Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
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My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.
Henny Youngman
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I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‘The Tonight Show.’ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.
Steven Wright
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It’s almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
Carol Burnett
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I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent.
Michael Jordan
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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
Fidel Castro
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