Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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“Pa-tay-toes, Po-tah-toes! It’s a matter of perspective, my friend. Different strokes for different folks.”
Nishta Kochar
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
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The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
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I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
Rodney Dangerfield
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For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Michelle Obama
Got any book recommendations?