Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce
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We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Alice Walker
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When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it’s where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.
Henry Rollins
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Honore de Balzac
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I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.
David Bowie
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We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve Jobs
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Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
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People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.
Joel Osteen
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Always do everything you ask of those you command.
George S. Patton
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas
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