Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I’m swimming, sometimes I’m not sure which one it is.
Demetri Martin
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I never saw myself as a folk singer.
Bob Dylan
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I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‘If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.’
Clint Eastwood
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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush Limbaugh
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I’m an emotional person.
J. K. Rowling
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An operatic voice is like no other.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
D. H. Lawrence
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