Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.
Alice Walker
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Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
Marianne Williamson
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If analysis shows that someone’s brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy – that is, a lack of manners.
Peter Drucker
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Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles
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Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
Jane Goodall
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