Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. Feynman
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I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‘My wife told me to wear this!’ And I just shake my head.
Tom Brady
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
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I’d rather write about polar bears than people.
Mary Oliver
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The word must is not to be used to princes.
Elizabeth I
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill
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We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My best friends are women in the Senate, but much like Senator Obama, I ran on a platform of change.
Amy Klobuchar
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