Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
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My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor
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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
Demetri Martin
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When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
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There is no way one can remake ‘Mughal-e-Azam.’ What my grandfather did, we cannot even think of emulating. The film is a legend, and we should leave it at that.
Rishi Kapoor
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Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Plato
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen
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