Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
Oprah Winfrey
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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don’t know about it.
Misty Copeland
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I just keep surprising myself, I guess.
Simone Biles
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
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Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn’t matter to us what we looked like.
Ruby Bridges
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
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