Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Attach yourself to Me. No one is more inward than I.
Ibn Arabi
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It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
Bill Gates
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel de Montaigne
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce
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I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
Maya Angelou
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The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‘Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,’ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.
Jeff Bezos
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Arundhati Roy
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It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Mitch Hedberg
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Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, ‘I’m a conservative, but I’m not in a bad mood about it.’ I’ve always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.
Mike Pence
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