Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost
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About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Aeschylus
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Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.
Dolly Parton
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I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
Pope Francis
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