Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
Leonard Cohen
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
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For me, Barack Obama’s election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson
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It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.
Nipsey Hussle
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The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
George Harrison
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.’ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
Noam Chomsky
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
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