Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Jeff Bezos
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron
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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
Maya Angelou
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Bill Gates
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My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
Stephen Hawking
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.
Billie Eilish
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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
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