Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.
Robert Kennedy
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I’m finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.
Shirley Chisholm
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If your ego starts out, ‘I am important, I am big, I am special,’ you’re in for some disappointments when you look around at what we’ve discovered about the universe. No, you’re not big. No, you’re not. You’re small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that’s limited on Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.
Joyce Meyer
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
Orson Welles
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The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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