Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S Truman
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Alleged ‘impossibilities’ are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.
Aretha Franklin
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A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you’re not dedicated to your cause, if you don’t have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen King
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Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Pope Francis
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. Nixon
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