Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
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Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.
Joe Biden
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I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony
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It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you have. If you don’t have position, you have nothing. That’s the tragedy of India.
Rahul Gandhi
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How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn’t have done it.
Michael Jordan
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I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.
Joe Biden
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