Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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‘Rocking With Leroy’ used to come on when I would come in from school. It was a very, very big R&B broadcast of the day when I was a young girl. And I would come in and put my books down, lie down on the floor, and listen to ‘Rocking With Leroy.’
Aretha Franklin
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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
Mike Tyson
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I’m always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
Maria Sharapova
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Apparently, I’ve been considered a recluse.
Mary Oliver
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When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!
Joyce Meyer
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
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I don’t hate old men but listen when being spoken to.
Tyson Fury
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We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.
John Lewis
Got any book recommendations?