Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That’s an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there’s a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it’s not what we know, it’s what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
Jack Welch
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Human cloning is coming.
Mike Pence
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Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.
Billie Eilish
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
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