Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
Fran Lebowitz
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A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Without deviation progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams
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I reject most conventional wisdom.
Rush Limbaugh
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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard M. Nixon
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By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
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