Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Certain of Poe’s tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.
Pete Buttigieg
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Nelson Mandela
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They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
Clint Eastwood
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.
Noam Chomsky
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel
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