Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Phyllis Diller
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May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
Charles Spurgeon
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore de Balzac
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We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions – and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.
Louis Armstrong
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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