Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
Bob Iger
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
Demetri Martin
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There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.
Claude Monet
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I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.
Elon Musk
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere
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People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I’m not suggesting that it isn’t a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they’ll take a look at the issues.
Condoleezza Rice
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
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