Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne
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Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as ‘successful’ can make us feel less successful.
Simon Sinek
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Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle Obama
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Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B. F. Skinner
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I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.
Billie Eilish
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
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We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.
Richard P. Feynman
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