Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.
Ron Howard
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Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, ‘Several Shades of Why’ and ‘Heavy Blanket,’ J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that ’80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.
Henry Rollins
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George Carlin’s album, ‘Class Clown,’ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.
Steven Wright
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.
Charles Bukowski
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil Gibran
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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