Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
Henri Nouwen
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle Obama
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam Chomsky
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As a student, I was a total jhalli who used to wear torn denims, faded kurtis, kohled eyes and thought that I was the coolest girl ever! We were a bunch of students who used to do social-issue-based street plays and believed that we could bring about a change in the world.
Swara Bhaskar
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt Disney
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
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My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.
Stephen Hawking
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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