Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf
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The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
Plato
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There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford
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Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs
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Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Elvis Presley
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In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell
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I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.
Ron Howard
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
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