Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil
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I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
Sam Houston
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In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which became my favorite.
Lil Uzi Vert
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius
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I’m often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
John Muir
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The ‘New York Honk,’ as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile… and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.
Tom Wolfe
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It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
Richard P. Feynman
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