Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Epictetus
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I’d never disrespect women. I have been brought up to treat women with courtesy and dignity.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
Alexander the Great
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Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.
Joyce Meyer
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Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.
Mary Oliver
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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.
David Bowie
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I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen.
Erykah Badu
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
Taylor Swift
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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
Demetri Martin
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