Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.
Ernest Hemingway
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I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
Sonia Sotomayor
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
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My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’
Steven Wright
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I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should.
Misty Copeland
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I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.
Kurt Cobain
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
Robin Williams
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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
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