Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Henry Rollins
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For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.
Elizabeth Warren
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
John Adams
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.
Joyce Meyer
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