Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
Benjamin Franklin
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
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The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh
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The manifold [universe] exists and yet it does not exist.
Ibn Arabi
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.
Tom Brady
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan
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We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
Billy Graham
Got any book recommendations?