Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, ‘I think I should get a job.’ She said, ‘No, just keep boxing.’
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I will not vote in favor of Senator Sessions’ nomination for attorney general.
Amy Klobuchar
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
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If you’re upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.
RuPaul
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning
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That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Aldous Huxley
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Mao Zedong
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling
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For me, it’s about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That’s what I am, and that’s what I intend to do.
Tyson Fury
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