Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m not a natural joiner.
J. K. Rowling
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
John Muir
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.
Billie Eilish
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I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
Taylor Swift
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‘No. No, I’m finished. Bye.’ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
Maya Angelou
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
Marianne Williamson
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I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
Clint Eastwood
Got any book recommendations?