Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Stephen King
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott
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Barack Obama doesn’t think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it’d be fine with him.
Rush Limbaugh
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
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The cautious seldom err.
Confucius
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
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