Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Jimmy Wales
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I love to help kids, especially spinners, in South Africa. You won’t see many guys bowling legspin, so I want to try to see if I can develop another .
Imran Tahir
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West
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I set the bar very high. I’m very tough on myself.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James
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When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.
Rhonda Byrne
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
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‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James
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Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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