Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.
Usain Bolt
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn’t I would still speak to them.
Sam Houston
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Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.
Robert Byrne
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Life must be lived as play.
Plato
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Khalil Gibran
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
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The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
Robert Kennedy
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