Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.
Will Rogers
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I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
Carol Burnett
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I met my husband through an app that talks to social-networking sites, and that’s how we were sort of suggested to each other, and it turned out to be a great match.
Pete Buttigieg
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It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
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I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin’. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.
Kevin Gates
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens
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The center line of science literacy – which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point – is how you think.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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