Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
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I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‘Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?’ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.
Michelle Obama
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
Taylor Swift
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust
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When we were on ‘The X Factor,’ we didn’t realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn’t really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
Zayn Malik
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Duty – that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce
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I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.
Billie Eilish
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