Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
Mike Tyson
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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
Anais Nin
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson
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What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
Jeff Bezos
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It’s a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
Michael Jordan
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James Baldwin
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I have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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