Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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As a comic, I think I’m very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I’ve written or thought up and how I say it.
Demetri Martin
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The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy
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I do not pilfer victory.
Alexander the Great
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I’ll never be part of society the way I should.
Mike Tyson
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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