Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
Maya Angelou
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You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
Bill Gates
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The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I always loved that old song ‘Banks of the Ohio’ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.
Dolly Parton
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I always have to be writing.
Taylor Swift
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When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Desmond Tutu
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Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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