Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.
Billie Eilish
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After I did ‘Lungi Dance’ with Shah Rukh, I felt I had achieved everything there is to achieve. But then I am getting to work with Amitabh Bachchan now. And it’s really the ultimate Bollywood experience for me. It really can’t get any better for me.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?
LeBron James
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Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
Henry Rollins
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
Stephen Covey
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It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Jesus Christ
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I don’t know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
B. F. Skinner
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
George Washington
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