Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You’ve got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
Bernie Sanders
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My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
Joel Osteen
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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
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