Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I just like the United States, and I like being an American.
Bobby Knight
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John Ruskin
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
Langston Hughes
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Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it’s getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald Trump
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I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‘I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.’
Wayne Dyer
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The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
Tom Wolfe
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I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David Bowie
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
Marianne Williamson
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