Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Les Brown
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Bill Gates
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Go, and never darken my towels again.
Groucho Marx
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton’s run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, ‘Well, I think he’s going to be the next President of the United States.’
Rahm Emanuel
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Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Langston Hughes
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!
Maya Angelou
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