Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin
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I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
J. K. Rowling
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.
Uma Thurman
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I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
Michelle Obama
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I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
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Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.
Michelle Obama
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