Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve Jobs
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
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I have an idea for a movie called ‘The Walken Dead’ which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
Robin Williams
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.
Dalai Lama
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So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we’re vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn’t fully understand.
Condoleezza Rice
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What we think, we become.
Buddha
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Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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