Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.
Joe Biden
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
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Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
David Bowie
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
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I’m really an old-fashioned girl – I like to be romanced.
Aretha Franklin
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We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
Alice Walker
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin Franklin
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