Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board – or a member of the House – does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.
Shirley Chisholm
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I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Sonia Sotomayor
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You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There’ll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.
Henry Rollins
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You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn’t care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
George Harrison
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire
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I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice Walker
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
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It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.
Richard M. Nixon
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