Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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As athletes, we’re always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don’t think about it.
Simone Biles
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I didn’t really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.
Carol Burnett
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
Emily Dickinson
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Hoosiers don’t believe in discrimination.
Mike Pence
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Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
Lou Holtz
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There’s a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.
Rush Limbaugh
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls’ rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Malala Yousafzai
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