Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
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I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
Groucho Marx
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
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I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn’t at home with them.
Elizabeth Warren
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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S Truman
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
Jeff Bezos
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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
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I’ve always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn’t matter if they were in film or music or fashion.
RuPaul
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