Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. You must be eating some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.
Malcolm X
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I’m very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
Dolly Parton
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We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren’t controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn’t believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it’s owned by a small group of people, we realize it’s biased, etc.
Marianne Williamson
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi
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‘Victory Lap,’ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.
Nipsey Hussle
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Eartha Kitt
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When I was child, I saw the ‘Ram Leela’ performed on stage. Now there is the film ‘Ram Leela,’ and its maker actually wanted me to do a song for Akshay Kumar in ‘Gabbar.’ Akshay was one of the first Bollywood A-listers to believe in me. We jelled before we jammed together.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.
Taylor Swift
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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert Camus
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