Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.
Michelle Obama
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn
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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people’s problems.
Indira Gandhi
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Bill Gates
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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