Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
Alice Walker
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I’m quite a chauvinistic person.
Gordon Ramsay
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I discovered Deborah Ellis’s books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
Malala Yousafzai
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell
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Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David Bowie
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
Got any book recommendations?