Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they’re living amongst so much beauty; there’s no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you’re stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself – otherwise, you’d go crackers.
George Harrison
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Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I’m a scientist. But I can tell you, I’m not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
Jesse Jackson
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Life is a song to me.
Dolly Parton
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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S Truman
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I’m already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I’m not gonna lie to you; I didn’t really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you’re crazy.
Lil Uzi Vert
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NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
Fidel Castro
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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