Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Noam Chomsky
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I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.
Ernest Hemingway
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I studied psychology at university.
Yasmine Hamdan
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is such a thing as ‘thanks-feeling’ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.
Charles Spurgeon
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Zadie Smith
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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong
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You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.
Joel Osteen
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