Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
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The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.
Richard P. Feynman
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If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Henry David Thoreau
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In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
Lou Holtz
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Susan B. Anthony
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He was definitely an original and a one-of-a-kind. Truly there was only one Prince.
Aretha Franklin
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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