Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
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It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
Kurt Cobain
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia Woolf
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A true champion will fight through anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That’s where I’m staying.
Condoleezza Rice
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The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
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