Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Being means acting the same as I always have.
Michael Jordan
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I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
Marie Curie
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter Drucker
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When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.
Amy Klobuchar
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
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Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
Stephen Hawking
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon
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