Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle
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When I was studying… there weren’t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Nina Simone
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Writers must… take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Mary Oliver
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Charlie Chaplin
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Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.
Mike Pence
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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