Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
Dolly Parton
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
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Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
Hunter S. Thompson
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Lord Byron
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
Ray Bradbury
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
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I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we’re going to grow together, that we’re going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we’re not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.
Bernie Sanders
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I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.
Huey Newton
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
Henri Nouwen
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Theodore Roosevelt
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