Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Joe Biden
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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates
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God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Joel Osteen
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
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I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
Gordon Ramsay
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Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S Truman
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, ‘Oh, let’s build a robot’ and what’s the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That’s so 1950s. We are so past that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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