Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
Roger Daltrey
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In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
Robert Kennedy
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Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Claude Monet
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Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
Maya Angelou
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
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I always wanted a family.
Kevin Gates
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As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a ‘singularity.’
Stephen Hawking
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When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It’s interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish’s can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
John Lewis
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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