Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin
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Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
Clint Eastwood
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one’s endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
Elizabeth Warren
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My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Stephen Hawking
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.
Charles Dickens
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