Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I haven’t took no punishment. There’s nothing cool about taking punishment.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali
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He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle
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To be No. 1 on the ‘New York Times’ best-seller list, well, that’s alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it’s surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.
Steve Harvey
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
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I’ve been things and seen places.
Mae West
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Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.
Pope Francis
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The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius
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