Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
William Shakespeare
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An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.
Mae West
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao Tzu
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
Ayn Rand
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates
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I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
Aeschylus
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