Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Amelia Earhart
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I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody Allen
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Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.
Jeff Bezos
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That’s what ignites the imagination.
Mae Jemison
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Voltaire
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter
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