Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’d like to take a course in writing. I’m not the best writer in the world. I’d like to write more neatly, even though people don’t send many handwritten letters these days.
Tyson Fury
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
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Power is competence.
Jordan Peterson
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In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne Dyer
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
Abraham Maslow
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It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.
Taylor Swift
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.
Kobe Bryant
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I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix
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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs
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