Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter
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I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
David Bowie
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles Spurgeon
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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