Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!
Pope Francis
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No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I’ve always been positive, no matter what happened.
Wilma Rudolph
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I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes, and imagine myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise. Some day, somehow, it was going to happen for me.
Misty Copeland
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Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.
Steve Jobs
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For many years, I tried to make New Year’s resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
Henry Rollins
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We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‘Facebook phones.’ That’s what Facebook Home is.
Mark Zuckerberg
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
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I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
Joel Osteen
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People like to hear the word ‘love.’
Kevin Hart
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo
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