Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
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I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
Dolly Parton
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When I talk to students – and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave – they say, ‘Well, how do I get to do what you do?’… And I say, ‘Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.’ And my point to them is don’t try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that.
Condoleezza Rice
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson
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Life is weird, great and dangerous.
Henry Rollins
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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
Nikola Tesla
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