Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson
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I’ve always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.
Juice Wrld
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
Samuel Beckett
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I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Stephen Hawking
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
Maria Montessori
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I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.
Pope Francis
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