Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
Jeff Bezos
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I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Lou Holtz
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Darwin’s theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ that you apply and say, ‘What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?’ Biology isn’t there yet with that kind of predictive precision.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn’t begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like ‘Hey Jude’ that I could appreciate. But they didn’t seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.
Leonard Cohen
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth
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It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
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I’m not in this sport to take punishment.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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