Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
William Butler Yeats
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
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If the enemy could only know that is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.
Marcus Garvey
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
Jordan Peterson
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X
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People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.
Kanye West
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne
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It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
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