Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill
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In countries other than Pakistan – I won’t necessarily call them ‘Western’ – people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don’t do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one’s words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
Malala Yousafzai
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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
Rumi
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Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved – saved millions of American lives.
Bobby Knight
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln
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