Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
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I ain’t no author, man… my writing skills are not of ‘New York Times’ best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain’t. My vocabulary ain’t.
Steve Harvey
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle
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My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we’d come back to the apartment – we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood – and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
Carol Burnett
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But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff Bezos
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget
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If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X
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It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.
Alice Walker
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I firmly believe in destiny, so let’s see what my luck has in store for me.
Rishi Kapoor
Got any book recommendations?