Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
Taylor Swift
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Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.
Noam Chomsky
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Eckhart Tolle
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
Elon Musk
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu
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I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
Alice Walker
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
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If I am close to Him, he brings me even closer.
Ibn Arabi
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