Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
Tom Brady
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Jackie Robinson
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He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
Elizabeth I
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
Donald Trump
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
William Butler Yeats
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