Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I don’t spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That’s my least favourite place in the world.
Maria Sharapova
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
Blaise Pascal
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Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
Plato
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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