Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
Yannick Noah
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Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a ‘good provider,’ so when my boyfriend proposed, I said ‘yes’ in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn’t know what was coming in life.
Elizabeth Warren
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.
Tom Brady
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles
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The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
Jesse Jackson
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If you’ve noticed that I don’t use long takes, it’s not because I don’t like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It’s more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
Orson Welles
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
Zachary Taylor
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