Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
Larry David
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan
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I like Muhammad a lot, because he’s like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it’s almost beyond our reach.
Deepak Chopra
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.
Ray Bradbury
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We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.
Mark Zuckerberg
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You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
Phyllis Diller
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
Lou Holtz
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
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One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.
Terry Pratchett
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