Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen
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My brother Shane and I used to spar with each other in the kitchen. We didn’t have gloves, so we wrapped tea towels around our hands.
Tyson Fury
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
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The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‘stick’ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Nikola Tesla
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I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.
Terry Pratchett
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl Marx
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali
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Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
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