Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It’s very satisfying.
Ruby Bridges
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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand Russell
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
Adam Smith
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People in communities like Granger, Indiana, are rarely heard from on cable networks. But they, too, believe it is wrong to deport friends and neighbors who do no harm and much good.
Pete Buttigieg
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
Hunter S. Thompson
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