Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
Steven Wright
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning
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