Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Hunter S. Thompson
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There would be more sense in insisting on man’s limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman’s because she can be.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894… A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.
Marie Curie
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Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.
Kevin Hart
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All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
John Wayne
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After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray Bradbury
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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