Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong
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Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.
Elon Musk
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Stephen King
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
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Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it’s hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.
Imran Tahir
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I’m on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I’m gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres
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China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.
Noam Chomsky
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If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
Jeff Bezos
Got any book recommendations?