Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking – the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn’t pretty.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I’m not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz
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