Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand Russell
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown
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When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Bobby Knight
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This dark diction has become America’s addiction.
Kanye West
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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