Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
Honore de Balzac
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I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
Bobby Knight
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I could see myself being on a TV show, but I think touring is something I’ll always do.
Tom Segura
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Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.
Mae West
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I think I have a dualistic nature.
Bob Dylan
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
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When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che Guevara
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