Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When I started, I didn’t know how to sing in Arabic – it’s a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
George Bernard Shaw
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Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
Tom Wolfe
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
Pete Buttigieg
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Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.
Gordon Ramsay
Got any book recommendations?