Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Jesse Jackson
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
Rumi
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can’t sing.
Roger Daltrey
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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’
Steven Wright
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia
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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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