Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
Taylor Swift
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Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Aristotle
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Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
Kevin Hart
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I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.
Juice Wrld
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Mark Twain
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