Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Orson Welles
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
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These stories I have recounted to you will remind you of what is within you.
Ibn Arabi
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By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
Hunter S. Thompson
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
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You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Deepak Chopra
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