Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Winston Churchill
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I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don’t think so.
Marilyn Monroe
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori
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The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud
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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
Dolly Parton
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My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
Tyson Fury
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Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.
Henry Rollins
Got any book recommendations?