Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
Clint Eastwood
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Khalil Gibran
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I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Alexander Hamilton
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I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
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All of us wish we’d had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
Marianne Williamson
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I’m a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
Bobby Knight
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These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon
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