Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
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They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.
Dolly Parton
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
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I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
Aretha Franklin
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It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.
Jordan Peterson
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas Sowell
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