Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Thich Nhat Hanh
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Thomas Merton
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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen Hawking
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
B. F. Skinner
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.
Mark Zuckerberg
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
Jesse Jackson
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