Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
Eartha Kitt
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington
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Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
Richard M. Nixon
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All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.
Leonard Cohen
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I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
Lou Holtz
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
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It’s difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
Zadie Smith
Got any book recommendations?