Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
Imran Khan
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin
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And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.
Taylor Swift
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You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.
Taylor Swift
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Death is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. Rowling
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell
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