Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips
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The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
Robert Kennedy
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.
Taylor Swift
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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‘Bellyache’ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
Billie Eilish
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
Tyson Fury
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I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Kanye West
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If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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