Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Douglas Adams
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
Wayne Dyer
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As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.
Aretha Franklin
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
Noam Chomsky
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Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams
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For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
Got any book recommendations?