Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The part of uranium that’s fissile – when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two – is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
Bill Gates
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To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.
Misty Copeland
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Audre Lorde
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I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
Marilyn Monroe
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
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The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
Billy Graham
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