Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
Charlie Chaplin
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
Zachary Taylor
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If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
Clint Eastwood
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When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can’t get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he’s either lying or not all that bright.
Henry Rollins
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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
John Wayne
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
Benito Mussolini
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Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
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