Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Aeschylus
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
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There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
Clint Eastwood
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I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
Stephen Hawking
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I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
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There’s a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, ‘Futon World.’ Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.
Demetri Martin
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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Alice Paul
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If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Steven Wright
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As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I’d get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.
Leonard Cohen
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