Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
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It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
Joyce Meyer
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
Albert Camus
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar Wilde
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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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