Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
Fidel Castro
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you’re raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
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For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people – brutal.
Henry Rollins
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Everybody who cares about me wants me to do therapy, but I just can’t do therapy.
Lil Peep
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I’ve been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it’s pretty equal. I don’t know why that is. It’s been the same thing for a while. It’s hard for female comedians to stand out. That’s weird. That’s a shame.
Ellen DeGeneres
Got any book recommendations?