Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.
Joyce Meyer
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
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I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I’d sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne
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I’m cranky.
Larry David
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In many parts of our country, geography and population density can make it difficult to attract private investment. These communities depend on federal investments to maintain and upgrade their transportation systems and stay competitive. And we know that it’s an investment worth making. Because when rural America succeeds, we all do.
Amy Klobuchar
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Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.
Ruby Bridges
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
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