Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson
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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Armstrong
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Yannick Noah
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The world’s a better place since I chose music.
Henry Rollins
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I’m uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.
Joyce Meyer
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
Paulo Coelho
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A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
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