Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You can’t get too caught up in yourself.
Simone Biles
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A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
Laurence J. Peter
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
Joyce Meyer
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
Zachary Taylor
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
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You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
Oprah Winfrey
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When you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
Terry Pratchett
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