Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf
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I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.
Marilyn Monroe
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A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
Noam Chomsky
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
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All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale
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Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola Tesla
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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