Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark Twain
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Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.
Mae West
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo
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Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas Sowell
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Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu
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