Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
Zadie Smith
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I don’t fight like Mike Tyson. I’m nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I’m out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else’s name.
Tyson Fury
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I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
Marianne Williamson
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I start a picture and I finish it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron
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