Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
Sigmund Freud
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Jackie Robinson
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
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The Hell’s Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell’s Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.
Hunter S. Thompson
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I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.
Kobe Bryant
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
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How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
Keanu Reeves
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
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