Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‘Dr. Who’ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
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We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare
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‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Charles Dickens
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I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I’ve never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
Iman Shumpert
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle
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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Aesop
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Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.
Robert Baden-Powell
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