Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time.
Brad Pitt
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I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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I don’t like the intellectual label.
Noam Chomsky
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton’s support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen – while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West.
Donald Trump
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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