Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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For me, every hour is grace.
Elie Wiesel
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Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
Joel Osteen
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham
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I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.
Jeff Bezos
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand
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Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla
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The skin of my character in ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.
David Bowie
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
Zadie Smith
Got any book recommendations?