Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens
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If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Desmond Tutu
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie
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The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Richard P. Feynman
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Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai Lama
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Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.
Sun Tzu
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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