Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
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Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.
Marianne Williamson
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My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.
David Bowie
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens
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I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I’ve made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.
Donald Trump
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Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
Noam Chomsky
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Thomas Sowell
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