Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
Brene Brown
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Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.
Billy Graham
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
Stephen Covey
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To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce
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I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel
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I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I’ve only seen myself as just an actor.
Swara Bhaskar
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