Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It’s funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don’t feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who’s doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it’s more possible.
Demetri Martin
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.
Bill Gates
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus
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The press is the enemy.
Richard M. Nixon
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The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
Mark Zuckerberg
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How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‘page 2.’
Henny Youngman
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I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I’m like a kid.
Shah Rukh Khan
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