Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m in trouble because I’m normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don’t like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Mike Tyson
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When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll
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You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.
Michael Bloomberg
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
John C. Maxwell
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Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
Bernie Sanders
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.
Steven Wright
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
Cesar Chavez
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I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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