Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
Bill Gates
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Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Jeff Bezos
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
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True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
Elon Musk
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. Rowling
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu
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