Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll
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Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf
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I’m a geek.
Bill Gates
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If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
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Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.
John Lewis
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry Pratchett
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The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
David Ogilvy
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