Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.
Noam Chomsky
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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens
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Alien – an American sovereign in his probationary state.
Ambrose Bierce
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
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Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.
Steven Wright
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
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You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you’re not going to get played on radio, and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
David Bowie
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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Charlie Chaplin
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