Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne
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It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.
Elizabeth Warren
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If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.
Richard P. Feynman
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Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.
Virgil
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
Nelson Mandela
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust
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The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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