Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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What has always made our country special is that it doesn’t matter where you come from; it matters where you’re going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.
Condoleezza Rice
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When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
Elizabeth Warren
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I don’t think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever.
Bobby Knight
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Millions of people are married. I’ve never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David
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Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
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The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‘new morality’ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‘meaningful.’
Billy Graham
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
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