Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I get the urge people will have after Trump. ‘Look at the chaos and the exhaustion: Wouldn’t it be better to go back to something more stable with somebody we know?’ But there’s no going back to a pre-Trump universe. We can’t be saying the system will be fine again just like it was. Because that’s not true; it wasn’t fine.
Pete Buttigieg
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
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I am not a fan of books.
Kanye West
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Nothing on ‘Relapse’ and very little on ‘Recovery’ was produced by me.
Eminem
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
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When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
Mark Zuckerberg
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
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I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!’
Marilyn Monroe
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Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.
Yasser Arafat
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I’ve never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it’s all drag.
RuPaul
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