Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.
Steven Wright
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When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Joyce Meyer
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don’t really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they’re good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
Taylor Swift
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
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I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.
Steve Jobs
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
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My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Rodney Dangerfield
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There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
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What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You’ve got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you’ve got the energy to overcome them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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