Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert Camus
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We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.
Billy Graham
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu
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It’s always good to take something that’s happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
Larry David
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I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
David Bowie
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I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers’ chops.
Robin Williams
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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.
Carol Burnett
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If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
Tom Wolfe
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There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
Terry Pratchett
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