Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Legspinners are exciting characters.
Imran Tahir
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A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
Ursus Wehrli
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There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.
Noam Chomsky
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America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, ‘Our gays are better than their gays,’ but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.
Henry Rollins
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
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I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.
Mark Zuckerberg
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
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