Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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aged?
age is an issue of mind over matter, If you do not mind, it does not matter. Aged Acting my age depends on the company that I keep at moment. As everyone and his wife knows the age of a group of people is the same as its youngest member. Yet ge does not diminish…
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political agenda.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop Memorial to politicians who opposed Hitler Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoeér he touch’d to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease— Touch them with gold, they’ll turn to what you please. ~ John Wolcott.…
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telethon!?!
Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's. Joe Bob Briggs Cellphone! At what age should kids get cellphone? Preferably never. But my older kid got hers when she went to the 11th standard, I do not know how it translates to grades. The younger one is campaigning for her own…
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Yours affectionately
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard friends A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into…
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Hurray its a holiday
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.– John.B,Priestly. Edison Storage Battery Train (LOC) If had six months to Kill– I did, Believe me I was neither hanged for it nor electrocuted. If the break was planned then I would scale the Everest, Swim the Pacific, and…
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The time is Now.
The Impossible Dream its right in front of you. Maybe we are focusing on the impossible without appreciating what we have. When it comes to things what want seems an endless list. Just as one gets off a new one gets in. its this motivation maybe that gets us going to do things. That’s what…
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