Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It’s so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
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There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson Mandela
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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.
Cardi B
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
Eartha Kitt
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
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I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.
Muhammad Ali
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I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman
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