Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You’ve got to – you’ve got the human game preserve to play off of. And it’s a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you’re playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
Robin Williams
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life – and if Virtue is not its own reward I don’t know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron
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I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
Donald Trump
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If you’re going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it’ll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it’s expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can’t get investors.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.
Rhonda Byrne
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I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
Michael Jordan
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My music, you know I’m not lying about anything, and the way you can tell is how in-depth I can get about everything I’m talking about.
Iman Shumpert
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