Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
Alexander McQueen
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My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve Jobs
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A girl phoned me the other day and said… ‘Come on over, there’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home.
Rodney Dangerfield
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When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
Taylor Swift
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don’t say you’re worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America’s concern, America’s operational presence there would be much different.
Henry Rollins
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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