Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Dr. Seuss
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On this National Immigration Day of Action, it is worth remembering that it’s not just Americans in New York or Los Angeles who believe that we need a more humane and rational system.
Pete Buttigieg
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Vincent Van Gogh
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it’s always good to be back.
Henry Rollins
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I’m looking to expand my portfolio while I’m on top and while I’m young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don’t know how to do it, and wouldn’t be any good at it if I did, so I’m going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
Terry Pratchett
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran
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