Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere ‘assonance’ rather than that of actual rhyme.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
Albert Camus
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Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
Donald Trump
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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis Presley
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Jackie Robinson
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Audre Lorde
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
Got any book recommendations?