Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.
Kevin Hart
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I’m very fortunate to have a coach that I got to stay with all this time. Every year the bond gets stronger and better, and we understand each other more. And it’s like she can tell if I walk into the gym what kind of mood I’m in, what she has to fix for the practice I need, or how I’m feeling.
Simone Biles
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother’s milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
Maria Montessori
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi
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