Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
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My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it’s not a joke, but it’s telling a story.
Carol Burnett
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Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao Tzu
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson
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People have asked me, ‘What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?’ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.
Colin Powell
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Tom Wolfe
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All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small ‘d.’ I believe in democracy, and by democracy, I mean that, to as great an extent as possible, human beings have the right to control their own lives. And that means that you cannot separate the political structure from the economic structure.
Bernie Sanders
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
Steven Wright
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That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Sojourner Truth
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