Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
Yannick Noah
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I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.
Elon Musk
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane Goodall
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