Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I tried to be a serious student and not procrastinate, but I was still somebody that would be described as somebody who liked to have fun, too, and go to the occasional party – or two or three.
Michelle Obama
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana
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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
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Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
Maria Montessori
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Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
Rush Limbaugh
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When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Water is life, and clean water means health.
Audrey Hepburn
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The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.
Paulo Coelho
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