Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Alexander Pope
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The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell
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It’s very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can’t wait until morning – it’ll be gone.
Mary Oliver
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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
John Muir
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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
Maya Angelou
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Stephen Hawking’s been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg – ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ and ‘E.T.,’ for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I don’t want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.
Elizabeth Warren
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