Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that’s not dangerous for them. There’s a lot of poisonous stuff that they’re putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Mike Tyson
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A hair divides what is false and true.
Omar Khayyam
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Really, what I’m aiming for is world domination!
Alexander McQueen
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
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Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
Clint Eastwood
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I read Plato’s ‘Republic.’ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey Newton
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