Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David Thoreau
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
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Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
Leonard Cohen
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Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Aeschylus
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Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
Noam Chomsky
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When a politician uses the word ‘folks,’ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
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You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
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