Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
Billy Graham
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
John Locke
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace
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That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Aldous Huxley
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