Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
Charles Spurgeon
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I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn’t do. But it seems to me that isn’t our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
Alice Paul
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney
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I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.
Henry David Thoreau
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‘I write for money.’ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
Maya Angelou
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