Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Richard M. Nixon
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski
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I’d do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.
Virgil Abloh
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo
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You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
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We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.
John Lewis
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For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
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