Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.
Oprah Winfrey
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
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Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don’t have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what’s happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We’re no longer a respected country.
Donald Trump
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I am a melancholy type of person.
Alexander McQueen
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
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I’m a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there’s very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in ‘I Shall Wear Midnight,’ which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they’re practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don’t fall off. And you try not to use them too often.
Terry Pratchett
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You can’t buy being a rock star.
Travis Scott
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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