Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there’s electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
Henry Rollins
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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My favorite writers have been those who’ve said things well.
Ray Bradbury
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I think that it’s perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don’t want defeat. We don’t want defeat in sport. We don’t want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What’s going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
Bobby Knight
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Even, today, when people tell me I’m beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
Uma Thurman
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I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
Ray Bradbury
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers – poets, actors, journalists – they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don’t fight science and they don’t fight technology.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I’m friends with, and they’re empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes – the clothes don’t wear them.
Virgil Abloh
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