Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Aeschylus
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My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.
Rodney Dangerfield
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Thomas Paine
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It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
Jeff Bezos
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Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx
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On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.
Keanu Reeves
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When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
Terry Pratchett
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney
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Portia and I constantly say to each other, ‘We are so lucky.’ Sometimes it’s lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there.
Ellen DeGeneres
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