Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I’ve had a good run. I’ve built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn’t work.
Carroll Shelby
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills – no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
Robin Williams
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
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We need to consider a financial transactions tax. And we need to ask whether the top marginal tax rates are really appropriate, given that the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy are often actually lower than those paid by the rest of us.
Pete Buttigieg
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In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
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Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‘convulsions of nature,’ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.
John Muir
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Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
William Shakespeare
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
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