Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Simon Sinek
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
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You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
Ray Bradbury
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
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I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett
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I know how men think when they’re not responding to questions in a clinical study.
Steve Harvey
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare
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In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.
Noam Chomsky
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Got any book recommendations?