Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Anthony Burgess
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Honore de Balzac
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anthony Burgess
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
Joyce Meyer
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I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.
Michelle Obama
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My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Stephen Hawking
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I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
Stephen King
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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