Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark Twain
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‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
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There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that’s the media.
Rush Limbaugh
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity’s thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
Fidel Castro
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Marcus Garvey
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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
George Herbert
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