Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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And I was booked once to go on ‘Ed Sullivan’ and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.
Aretha Franklin
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As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Jordan Peterson
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
Stephen Hawking
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Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
Aristotle
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My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
Clint Eastwood
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning
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