Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Thought is more than a right – it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
Victor Hugo
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’
Peter Drucker
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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Aeschylus
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
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I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
Fidel Castro
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