Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‘If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.’
Richard P. Feynman
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
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For Conor McGregor, I’m coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Jordan Peterson
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso
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Just go up to somebody on the street and say ‘You’re it!’ and then run away.
Ellen DeGeneres
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