Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
Jim Rohn
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
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Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.
Bob Dylan
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My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.
Misty Copeland
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine
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Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
Shirley Chisholm
Got any book recommendations?