Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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One person’s roar is another’s whine, just as one person’s music is another’s unendurable noise.
Henry Rollins
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation.’ You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle.’ All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome
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Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
Bill Gates
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
Marianne Williamson
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Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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