Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
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We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.
Mark Zuckerberg
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato
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The essential truth is that sometimes you’re worried that they’ll find out it’s a fluke, that you don’t really have it. You’ve lost the muse or – the worst dread – you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
Robin Williams
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
Dolly Parton
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
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