Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I’m disappointed by bands left and right, every day.
Henry Rollins
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I don’t write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that’s going to happen. There’s an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
Larry David
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
Noam Chomsky
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Saint Augustine
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Arthur Ashe
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In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.
Jeff Bezos
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Listen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen Covey
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
John Locke
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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