Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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After I wrapped ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
Henry Rollins
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Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
Pope Francis
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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
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The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It’s also the only privatized system.
Noam Chomsky
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Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.
Zachary Taylor
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I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
Josephine Baker
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Got any book recommendations?