Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
H. P. Lovecraft
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
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Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
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I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
Lou Holtz
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot
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Indiana is a state that works because conservative principles work every time you put them into practice.
Mike Pence
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Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Stephen Hawking
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It is a big challenge as a spinner to play modern day cricket, where you have to have five players in the circle.
Imran Tahir
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‘artist’ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.
Billie Eilish
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