Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Phyllis Diller
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I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
Rahm Emanuel
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I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.
Amy Klobuchar
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I don’t come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That’s how I’ve always been.
Virgil Abloh
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You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.
Henny Youngman
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Lou Holtz
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
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Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It’s people who haven’t been anywhere, haven’t seen the world.
Tyson Fury
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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