Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.
Colin Powell
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
Arthur Ashe
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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking
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In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.
Noam Chomsky
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Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Jeff Bezos
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao Tzu
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