Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn’t exist.
Rush Limbaugh
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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
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My brother’s been cutting my hair since I was in 7th grade.
Iman Shumpert
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
H. P. Lovecraft
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
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The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
Richard P. Feynman
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We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
Robert Kennedy
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I don’t digest things with my mind.
Marilyn Monroe
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