Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
John C. Maxwell
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I love the Ritz.
Aretha Franklin
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To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
John Muir
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Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice.
Kevin Gates
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It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‘head and master rule,’ that the husband was head and master of the house.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn Monroe
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