Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
Ronald Reagan
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Nikola Tesla
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When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
Maya Angelou
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
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A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Some people are going to like me; some people won’t.
Iman Shumpert
Got any book recommendations?