Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Michelle Obama
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana
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Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
Plato
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor Swift
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie Chaplin
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn
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My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
Clint Eastwood
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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy
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