Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some critics will write ‘ is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso
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There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.
Stephen Covey
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham Lincoln
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
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It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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