Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Bill Gates
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries’ work.
Mae Jemison
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The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, ‘How does creativity apply across the board?’
Kanye West
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When you’ve written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list – and four have been No. 1 – I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
Marianne Williamson
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For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn’t. In fact, he’s much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.
Rush Limbaugh
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