Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
Zayn Malik
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
Alexander McQueen
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
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We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.
Mark Zuckerberg
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust
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If there’s anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.
John Wooden
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