Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman
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The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
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It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
David Bowie
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Charlie Chaplin
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde
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We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
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I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
Ellen DeGeneres
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We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
Bob Iger
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley
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