Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
Eartha Kitt
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn’t try to run their lives.
John Wooden
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I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don’t think it’s true of people who’ve grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don’t think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it’s a different kind of love.
Arundhati Roy
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye West
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I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel Osteen
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We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.
Mark Zuckerberg
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I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.
Ray Bradbury
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