Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different ‘made in’ notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.
Henry Rollins
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Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
Les Brown
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We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
Joyce Meyer
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.
Misty Copeland
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I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don’t ever have to reference me because, I’d like to believe as an educator, I’m empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Florence Nightingale
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To survive as a species on this planet, we’re going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.
Mae Jemison
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We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.
Kanye West
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When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
Phil McGraw
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