Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Prince is gone. But the music will go on.
Aretha Franklin
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All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
Mitch Hedberg
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When an industry matures, it means it’s not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That’s the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don’t get angry when a corporation does that; we’ve all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
Douglas Adams
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God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy Graham
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
Taylor Swift
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