Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I’m a professional food eater.
Henry Rollins
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If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.
Noam Chomsky
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Preventive medicine isn’t part of a physician’s everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
Deepak Chopra
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It’s the great tragedy – people employed in ways that don’t fully tap everything they do best in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
Elon Musk
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain
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