Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
Hedy Lamarr
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Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.
Aretha Franklin
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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley
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I couldn’t say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes.
John Lewis
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
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A man’s character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
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My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
LeBron James
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