Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
Stephen Covey
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
Voltaire
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost
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Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.
Dolly Parton
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have been listening to the Stooges’ self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.
Henry Rollins
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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What’s important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn’t satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn’t right, or if the offerings aren’t right, it’s the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don’t get hung up on zeros.
Jack Welch
Got any book recommendations?