Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin
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I feel like I might be a designer or stylist – or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.
Billie Eilish
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it’s not a lie.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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It’s my life. It just continues to go forward from ‘The Apprentice.’
Donald Trump
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I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I’m still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
Anthony Burgess
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it’s the city or state or federal level – it’s much more horse-trading than analysis.
Michael Bloomberg
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