Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
Indira Gandhi
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
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We’d get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, ‘What makes you think all this is for you? You’ve got a sister right behind you.’ So then I realized, we’re all in this together. We have to help each other.
Ruby Bridges
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
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