Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don’t need justification.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you – except for when it came to hide and seek: that’s the only advantage I ever had!
Simone Biles
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
Mark Twain
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Susan B. Anthony
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle
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Man, I really like Vegas.
Elvis Presley
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When you think about it, media’s the intersection of content and technology – it’s all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
Bob Iger
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