Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t go to the wrap party. I don’t go to the premiere.
Henry Rollins
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don’t, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It’s not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
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Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we’re going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.
Elon Musk
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I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie Chaplin
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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
H. L. Mencken
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Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it’s kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years – maybe even sooner.
Mark Zuckerberg
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
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It’s always tough for a spinner to bowl against India.
Imran Tahir
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Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne
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