Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m not the nicest guy on stage.
Tom Segura
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We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Brene Brown
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.
Zayn Malik
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas Sowell
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
Jimmy Wales
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
Wilma Rudolph
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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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