Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
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The police need to come down to street level.
Alexander McQueen
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
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A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I’d finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.
Tyson Fury
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx
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Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.
Dolly Parton
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
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