Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
Terry Pratchett
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams
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You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I do try to separate my personal activism – showing up at a demonstration or something – from what I write.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
Yannick Noah
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley
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When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?
Clint Eastwood
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I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.
Joel Osteen
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