Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot
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I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
Richard Bach
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Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.
Mae West
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You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
Brad Pitt
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If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
Elon Musk
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway
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Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley
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Where there’s a lack of competition – as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical’s virtual monopoly on EpiPen – price increases often follow.
Amy Klobuchar
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