Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Donald Trump
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud
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My belief is that my wife should be at home looking after my kids and cooking and cleaning. She’s a very privileged woman to have a husband like me. Not everyone’s in her position, but the ones who are are very lucky. That’s my opinion.
Tyson Fury
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I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint Eastwood
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell
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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That’s what I want to do.
Erykah Badu
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