Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.
Colin Powell
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I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson’s show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.
Ellen DeGeneres
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If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.
Ray Bradbury
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
Jesse Jackson
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Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Dalai Lama
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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