Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin
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You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
Jimi Hendrix
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If you have notoriety, you can dress any way you want to dress. That’s the way it is. I just like to get dressed up. I think that they go hand in hand – notoriety and people lookin at ya. If they look at ya, either you look like a million dollars, or you don’t. A guy can have a phenomenal body, but if the suit doesn’t fit him, forget it.
Ric Flair
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle
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The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
Charles Spurgeon
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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
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While I’ve spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it’s not been enough.
Jesse Jackson
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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