Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
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An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Stephen Covey
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Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
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Have you ever heard the expression ‘one hot mess?’ I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
Henry Rollins
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Noam Chomsky
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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
Got any book recommendations?