Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
Bill Gates
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcolm X
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
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When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‘i’s’ small.
Charles Bukowski
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I do feel like I’ve missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.
Zayn Malik
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You have to be persistent.
John Lewis
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A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The book, ’12 Rules For Life,’ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.
Jordan Peterson
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
Elie Wiesel
Got any book recommendations?