Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
Erma Bombeck
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I’ve had tendinitis since college.
Michael Jordan
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It’s not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.
LeBron James
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
Henry David Thoreau
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