Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.
Elvis Presley
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A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.
Robert Byrne
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I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali
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Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad’s home was, where we lived.
Aretha Franklin
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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It’s complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world – I sing in Arabic, but there’s no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
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The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it’s all downhill from that point.
Kevin Hart
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The people in my songs are all me.
Bob Dylan
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