Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud
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My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‘Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?’ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle Obama
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.
Richard P. Feynman
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Maimonides
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.
Billy Graham
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
Zack Snyder
Got any book recommendations?