Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That’s not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
Keanu Reeves
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle
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The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.
Henry Rollins
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Today, writers want to impress other writers.
Paulo Coelho
Got any book recommendations?