Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
Maria Montessori
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
Noam Chomsky
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
Henry Rollins
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I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
Kobe Bryant
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Maya Angelou
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.
Lou Holtz
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