Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.
Noam Chomsky
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Lord Byron
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington
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I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.
Kevin Hart
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I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
David Bowie
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
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