Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I do listen to a lot of music, but I don’t listen when I’m writing.
Yanni
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
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Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
Bill Gates
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes
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Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.
Billie Eilish
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In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we’re not just taking – that we’re not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn’t do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.
Jimi Hendrix
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
Rudyard Kipling
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Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.
Stephen Covey
Got any book recommendations?