Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the Great
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If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.
Clint Eastwood
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge
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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Stephen Covey
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Arthur Ashe
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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil
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This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, ‘Watchmen’ should be at least 15 minutes longer than ‘Batman.’ I mean, that’s, like, any geek will tell you that.
Zack Snyder
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