Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne
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I’m a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
Henry Rollins
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
Leonardo da Vinci
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