Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
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If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
Terry Pratchett
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Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is . I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Orson Welles
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‘CSI’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor Swift
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The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
Simon Sinek
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
Noam Chomsky
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