Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.
T. S. Eliot
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
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It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s harder for us.
Erykah Badu
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia Earhart
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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