Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher
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The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham
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Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm Emanuel
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it’s like a dialogue.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury
Got any book recommendations?