Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word ‘citizen’ was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.
Robert Kennedy
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.
Irrfan Khan
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
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Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas
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I never expected to be anybody important.
Elvis Presley
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I’m not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
Henry Rollins
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