Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Paulo Coelho
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
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I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
Maria Sharapova
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Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
Nikita Khrushchev
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one’s passional changes.
D. H. Lawrence
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
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You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.
Mark Zuckerberg
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You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists – we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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