Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
Fidel Castro
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
Orson Welles
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I’m a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work – which doesn’t take up that much time.
Orson Welles
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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John Muir
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Maya Angelou
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As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
Brene Brown
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Ambrose Bierce
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