Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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‘Back to Blood’ really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.
Tom Wolfe
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop
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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
David Bowie
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
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When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.
Steven Wright
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu
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If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better – that is the true reward.
Maria Sharapova
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We want to take boxing to the level of cricket.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis
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