Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It’s a survival mechanism.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.
Tom Brady
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
Henry Rollins
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The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‘Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.’ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‘I’m out of eggs. What have you got?’
Jeff Bezos
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn
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‘Unforgiven’ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‘This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.’ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.
Clint Eastwood
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I would ask… of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.
Bernie Sanders
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
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