Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Orson Welles
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Stephen Hawking
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Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
Simon Sinek
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.
Henri Nouwen
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I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.
Tom Brady
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
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