Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
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People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill Gates
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball
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Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle
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There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. ‘The Saturday Evening Post’ and ‘Collier’s’ both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology… the new way of killing time.
Tom Wolfe
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