Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray Bradbury
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The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
George Harrison
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I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.
Rishi Kapoor
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Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.
Richard P. Feynman
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Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.
Bill Gates
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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