Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.
Colin Powell
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You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell
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