Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My affliction has been… I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
Brad Pitt
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I had always been proud of my body – its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.
Misty Copeland
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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
John Keats
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
Condoleezza Rice
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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My childhood is a part of my story, and it’s why I’m who I am today and why my career is what it is.
Misty Copeland
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