Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen Hawking
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When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
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When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.
Kevin Hart
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver
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For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.
Bernie Sanders
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.
Dolly Parton
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Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt Cobain
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