Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It’s pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they’re going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 – it’s a big change for girls.
Zayn Malik
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There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, ‘I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let’s go test that prediction,’ and have the prediction be correct.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron
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I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.
Clint Eastwood
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn’t know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
Eckhart Tolle
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling
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