Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll
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America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
Michael Bloomberg
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.
Ruby Bridges
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I guess I still feel that I’m a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn’t mean that I like it, but I feel that’s what I am.
Larry David
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I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
D. H. Lawrence
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I am just one human being.
Dalai Lama
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr
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