Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.
Mae West
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I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.
Bernie Sanders
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
Simon Sinek
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Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
Ernest Hemingway
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there – and sometimes you just have to push.
Mae Jemison
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
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The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams
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