Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury
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If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.
Misty Copeland
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher
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Everything is subject to change except God Himself.
Joyce Meyer
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing – soften their roughest edges – to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
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I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Rahm Emanuel
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
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