Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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‘Cosmos’ wouldn’t deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.
Tom Brady
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Eventually, it came to this place like, ‘I’d like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.’ ‘Man of Tai Chi’ became the story to tell.
Keanu Reeves
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz
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Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Douglas Adams
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To have a romance, you have to have time. I’m a justice. I’ve written a book. The guy’s gonna have to wait until I’m a little bit freer.
Sonia Sotomayor
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