Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
Maria Montessori
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The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot
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I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
Steven Wright
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Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Thomas Sowell
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
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I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
Dolly Parton
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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