Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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That’s the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain – they cannot be otherwise.
Zadie Smith
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There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!
Rhonda Byrne
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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn’t happen.
Carol Burnett
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf
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There’s something rare and wonderful that’s very particular to television, and it’s when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That’s what happened with ‘Arrested Development.’ It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.
Ron Howard
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.
Phil McGraw
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Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
Marianne Williamson
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Got any book recommendations?