Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Working out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
Richard P. Feynman
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.
Donald Trump
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin Powell
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
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