Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Richard P. Feynman
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My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.
Dolly Parton
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Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?
Marilyn Monroe
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There’s something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
Henry Rollins
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I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright
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It’s not that I’m a daredevil. But I’m just generally not a fearful person. I don’t conduct my life worrying about what could happen, what may happen.
Bob Iger
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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust
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Everybody can’t have the life of a normal, average American person in India – they can’t. So, it’s about egalitarianism. It’s about sharing things more equally. It’s about access to natural resources.
Arundhati Roy
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