Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron
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Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
Fidel Castro
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Zadie Smith
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We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
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I’ll play what you want or I won’t play at all.
George Harrison
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Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.
Joel Osteen
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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Well the truth is, Republicans didn’t just lose a few elections, we lost our way.
Mike Pence
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