Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I want everyone to remember me as just a mogul.
Playboi Carti
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We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan
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Religion doesn’t play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don’t think I’ve ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word ‘Jew’ or saying it myself.
Larry David
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.
John Muir
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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell
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There’s a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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