Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
Robert Kennedy
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken
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I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.
Tom Brady
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
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The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
Harry S Truman
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.
Freddie Mercury
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
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