Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
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My favorite Twombly is ‘Apollo and the Artist,’ with the big ‘Apollo’ written across it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
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If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
Jordan Peterson
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
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In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.
Noam Chomsky
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Voltaire
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And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy Buffett
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I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Got any book recommendations?