Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them – NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Martha Graham
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust
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I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn’t mean I’m going to miss my train, it just means that I’m not thinking about it right now because I’m speaking to you.
Deepak Chopra
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
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There’s a lot of great singers out here.
Aretha Franklin
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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