Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Another ten minutes lapsed in complete silence. Hritvik finally looked at Shakti and asked, smiling, “So what do you want? A boy or a girl?”
Nishta Kochar
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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
David Ogilvy
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And that’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
Elizabeth Warren
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of ‘Les Miserables,’ in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not – and was not interested in – telling a lie.
Tom Wolfe
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.
Misty Copeland
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I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin
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