Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The potential financial reward for building the ‘next Windows’ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
Bill Gates
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
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A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Henry Rollins
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White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
Arundhati Roy
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Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody’s going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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