Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Every old poem is sacred.
Horace
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
Dolly Parton
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You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
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On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.
Mike Pence
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A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‘Harry Potter”s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.
Jordan Peterson
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Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.
Kevin Hart
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson
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