Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost
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Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
Deepak Chopra
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White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.
Muhammad Ali
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.
Denzel Washington
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I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
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Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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