Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
Denzel Washington
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Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
Noam Chomsky
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke
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Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo
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It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.
Dolly Parton
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I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark Zuckerberg
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
John Lewis
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Got any book recommendations?