Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
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If I’m jetlagging, and I’ve missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you’re supposed to cry, I’ll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I’ll cry.
Henry Rollins
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I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.
Donald Trump
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker
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The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.
Michelle Obama
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This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Henny Youngman
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Charles Bukowski
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Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we’re often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
Marianne Williamson
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