Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes
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Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Horace
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley
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I don’t want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
Alexander McQueen
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If someone comes to you with, ‘It’s my kid’s graduation,’ you don’t tell them, ‘Sorry, you can’t go to that.’ You just don’t do that. You figure out some other way.
Bob Iger
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From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.
Ruby Bridges
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