Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
Bill Gates
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.
Donald Trump
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There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.
Kevin Hart
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Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
Kevin Gates
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I don’t prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
Dolly Parton
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All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
Abraham Maslow
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there’s an ongoing evolution of clarity.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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